A Little Guide for Teachers: Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching

Caroline Bentley-Davies is an educational consultant and adviser who still teaches lessons in schools and colleges across the country. She also delivers training on all aspects of teaching and learning through her training company: www.bentley-davies.co.uk Caroline has worked as Local Authority Adviser, Ofsted inspector, School Improvement Partner, and teacher and However, her main love is working in the classroom alongside teachers and trainee teachers. She has trained educators across the world and her books have been translated into different languages. Caroline is the author of the TES acclaimed ‘How to be an Amazing Teacher’, ‘Sticky Teaching and Learning: How to make your pupils remember what you teach them’, ‘How to be an Amazing Middle Leader’, as well as the Teachers’ Pocketbooks ‘Outstanding Lessons’, ‘Literacy Across the Curriculum’ and ‘Raising Achievement Teachers’ Pocketbook. For more information about Caroline see @realcbd or www.bentley-davies.co.uk

• Chapter 1: What is differentiation? What is adaptive teaching? Dispelling the Myths and why it mattersChapter 2: Understanding Adaptive Teaching in the lesson: Focus on questioning skillsChapter 3: The Responsive Teacher – setting the climate right so learners can flourish. Focus on supporting & scaffolding skillsChapter 4: Unpicking Challenge: Stretch and Challenge for all within the lessonChapter 5: Teaching Assistants: appropriate support – not dependence!Chapter 6: Peers and learning beyond the classroom