“If you get it right for the most disadvantaged and vulnerable, you get it right for everyone.”
At @Ofstednews, we’re going to keep saying it until we’re blue in the face.
We have put inclusion - children with SEND and disadvantaged children - at the heart of our reforms.
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A PD is given about formative assessment or whatever, and it is assumed that this will magically be embedded in classrooms. Come on. If there is one thing every principal should know about professional learning it's that it doesn't work that way.
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After the release of the “Use of teaching assistants in schools” was released in September, I have spent the last few weeks reading, internalising and reflecting on what this research from the @educationgovuk essentially tells us (with strengths & developments needed)
Adaptive teaching: Scaffolds, Scale, Structure and Style.
@AlexJQuigley take on AT offers a fresh take on how we can adapt learning whilst maintaining high expectations for all students.
Original blog: https://t.co/e691ZjN89Z
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‘Adaptive Teaching: Scaffolds, Scale, Structure and Style’
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@tenaciousKat This is so true - I could say exactly the same for me too- it’s mad now to look back at what I genuinely thought peak effective practice was!
@gerrydiamond71 the rise of adaptive teaching strategies in relation to cognitive domains has come a long way in terms of truly inclusive classrooms. Singing from the roof tops on lethal mutations and how cognitive dci is applied will support these informed classrooms