Adaptive teaching isn’t about doing more – it’s about doing the right things, with the right groups, at the right time.
Drawing on EEF recommendations, this course focuses on flexible grouping as a cornerstone of effective classroom practice. You’ll explore what flexible grouping actually looks like in a mainstream primary classroom, how short feedback loops can accelerate progress for all learners, and what makes a group intervention truly effective. We’ll plan a group session together, step by step – then you’ll plan one yourself, using a real gap from your own children. Designed for teachers and TAs together, this is a practical, evidence-informed session that turns research into something you can use tomorrow.
Learning outcomes
- Understand the mechanism that makes flexible grouping work – and use that reasoning to justify how and when groups form and dissolve
- Plan a short, focused group session around a precise misconception, using the EEF’s markers of effective intervention – modelled step by step, then applied to a real gap in their own class
- Judge when that group has done its job, using short feedback loops to decide what happens to those children next.
Audience: Teachers and TAs in primary settings.
