Adaptive teaching is where a teacher adapts their instruction to meet the needs of all learners. This session gives practical, evidence-informed examples of how adaptive teaching can be used to modify common teaching strategies such as explanations, modelling, practice, questioning and Retrieval Practice.

Behaviour impacts a wide range of areas of school or college life from student attainment to teacher wellbeing and job satisfaction. This session covers 12 evidence-based strategies to develop effective relationships between staff and students and build a powerful behaviour culture. These strategies include narrating positive behaviour, purposeful circulation, least invasive intervention and powerful praise.

Learning intentions are statements of what students are expected to learn. This includes what students will achieve, know, or be able to do after the completion of a lesson or unit of learning. Setting appropriate learning intentions requires assessment of students’ prior knowledge. This session covers the how to set specific and consistent learning intentions, the importance of prior knowledge and ways in which you can both assess and consolidate prior knowledge in your teaching.

Feedback has the potential to be one of the best methods for moving learning forward but unfortunately, many feedback interventions are not effective. This session covers 8 evidence-based strategies to ensure that your feedback is effective and helps your students to make progress. This includes looking at how feedback should be actionable, the timing of feedback as well as the use of written and verbal feedback.

Explanations are a key component of our teaching repertoire. But how do you ensure that your explanations are effective and maximise student learning? This session covers 11 evidence-based strategies for delivering effective explanations, including directing student attention, examples and non-examples and linking to prior knowledge.

During modelling, a teacher demonstrates a new concept or approach. This is particularly important when students are expected to carry out a complex task. Done well, modelling can ensure that students can successfully complete independent practice. This session covers 8 evidence-based strategies for effective modelling including verbalising your thinking, preventing transitive models and worked examples.