Adaptive Teaching Was Never the Problem. Capacity Is.
By Julian Dance —
Tags: Teaching & Learning, Teaching Strategies, Adaptive Teaching, How Students Learn
Adaptive teaching has never been about willingness. It's about capacity. Julian reflects on the growing complexity of today's classrooms, the teacher's "fourth sense", and how technology should support, not replace, great teaching.
I've been teaching long enough to remember when differentiation meant producing three versions of the same worksheet. Thankfully, we've moved on. The language has changed, our understanding of learning has developed, and today we talk about adaptive teaching. Not because it's the latest educational buzzword, but because it better reflects what good teachers have always tried to do - respond to the learners in front of them. When people ask me what adaptive teaching really means, I think about the hundreds of tiny decisions teachers make every lesson without anyone noticing. The explanation you