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Effective Adaptive Teaching Strategies

Created and presented by Twinkl PD’s Carly Watkins, this course examines the theories behind adaptive teaching, how to use it effectively and strategies you can take away and use with your pupils.

Designed as an action research-based professional development course and backed up by relevant evidence and research, you'll learn about a wide range of effective strategies to adapt teaching and plan to apply these to your context.

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Carly Watkins

2 hours

Online Course


By completing this course, you will:

Be clear on what adaptive teaching is and how it varies from differentiation.
Discover how teaching adaptively can boost pupil outcomes.
Learn practical strategies for making adaptive teaching work in your classroom.
Plan and start using adaptive teaching in your lessons.
Reflect on your teaching and refine your approach.

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Written and Presented by:
Carly Watkins

Carly Watkins has over twenty years of experience as a primary school teacher, including several years as an assistant headteacher, with responsibility for whole-school curriculum development and overseeing pupil progress and attainment. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Education Practice and an NPQ in Leading Teacher Development.

Carly has been a mentor for both student and Early Career Teachers and currently facilitates the Early Career Framework for ECTs and their mentors, delivering training at conferences and via online seminars. At Twinkl PD, Carly heads up pedagogical professional development, a role which means she can support educators to develop their personal practice and pedagogy, something she is passionate about, on a national scale.