The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching: Confidently meeting the needs of every learner
By (Author) Sue Cowley
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Education
30th September 2025
2nd edition
United Kingdom
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Teaching skills and techniques
Educational strategies and policy: inclusion
Teachers classroom resources and material
Primary and middle schools
Secondary schools
371.9043
Paperback
160
Width 153mm, Height 234mm
This revised edition of The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching explains the 'why' and 'how' of adaptive teaching and offers creative strategies for supporting all learners in early years, schools and further education.
This fully updated edition of The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation offers creative strategies for supporting all learners. Sue Cowley shows that we need to understand, acknowledge and celebrate the variety of approaches that teachers already use, as well as support them to develop additional strategies. The book takes the reader through the different methods and approaches to adaptive teaching, providing a step-by-step guide to each. It is broken down into five core areas planning, resources, learners, teaching and assessment and readers can dip in and out to find practical, time-saving strategies as and when they need them. This fully updated edition features a brand new chapter explaining the 'why' behind adaptive teaching and features additional strategies for supporting learners with SEND, EAL and both lower and higher attainment.
Written in Sue's much-loved realistic, honest and practical style, The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching will help teachers, practitioners and support staff to feel confident that they are meeting the needs of every learner.
It prompts thought; it asks great questions; it offers ways to implement strategies, useful to the NQT and senior leader alike. * Clare Jarmy, TES *
The book demonstrates how teachers already adapt their teaching much of the time, in subtle and creative ways maybe even without knowing it. Sue Cowley shows that we need to understand, acknowledge and celebrate the variety of approaches that teachers already use, as well as helping them to develop additional strategies. * Parents in Touch *
Sue Cowley manages to develop practical ideas, rooted in classroom reality, that stimulate thinking about children and their needs in an investigative process of constant reflection and refinement. * Chris Chivers, university tutor, consultant and former primary headteacher @ChrisChivers2 *
Sue Cowley has done a tremendous job. This book is comprehensive, balanced, eminently sensible and written with Sue's customary flair and warmth. She offers numerous practical suggestions for how this understanding can be built and successful learning secured. * Jill Berry, leadership consultant and former headteacher @jillberry102 *
Sue Cowley shows that we need to understand, acknowledge and celebrate the variety of approaches that teachers already use to adapt their teaching, as well as helping them to develop additional strategies. * Teacher Toolkit *
What a magical little book. Teaching student teachers how to adapt is so hard because it is just good teaching! This book breaks these areas of good teaching down and offers snippets of useful advice. Another one for the recommended reading list. * Chrissy Holbrey, Senior Lecturer, Leeds Beckett University, Carnegie School of Education *
Sue Cowley is a bestselling education author and an internationally renowned presenter and teacher trainer. She has experience teaching in early years, primary and secondary settings and her bestselling books, including How to Survive Your First Year in Teaching, are longstanding teacher favourites. She currently helps to run her local preschool and does training and consultancy work for schools and organisations across the world. Find more of Sue's books and resources on her website www.suecowley.co.uk and @Sue_Cowley.