There are many areas within our guidance reports that will be useful in different contexts, but it may be worth attending to two areas in particular when considering teacher professional development:
- Explicit teaching of learning behaviours, academic and behaviour routines, social and emotional skills and metacognitive strategies.
- High quality teaching based on the principles of scaffolding, modelling, adaptive teaching, flexible grouping, cognitiveRelated to the mental process involved in knowing, understanding, and learning. and metacognitive strategies, explicit instruction and using technology to support pupils with SEN.
Reflection and planning
Refer to the questions in the reflection tool to support your thinking and planning.
Supporting school attendance reflection and planning tool
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Further reading and sharing practice
Blog
EEF blog: Moving from ‘differentiation’ to ‘adaptive teaching’
What does adaptive teaching mean for Education South West?
Huntington Research School
Adaptive Teaching
How the Core Content Framework for ITTs can help us understand the shift from differentiation to adaptive teaching
Dixons OpenSource
Improving Attendance: our approaches
Why attendance is a priority right now and important for the achievement, wellbeing and wider development of a student.
Blog
EEF blog: ‘Five-a-day’ to improve SEND outcomes
The EEF’s SEND Specialist Gary Aubin explores how teachers can support pupils with SEND in their daily practice.
Blog
EEF blog: The power of people: Uniting a team for effective implementation
Research Schools Network
‘Think it through Thursdays’: Supporting pupil attendance through staff communications
Helping staff to understand the important role they play in supporting children’s attendance.
Podcast
New episode of ‘Evidence into Action’ – ‘Effective Professional Development’
New episode of the EEF’s ‘Evidence into Action’ podcast.
Evidence and resources
1. Build a holistic understanding of pupils and families, and diagnose specific needs
Get to know your pupils, their families, their influences, and their specific challenges.
Evidence and resources
2. Build a culture of community and belonging for pupils
Make sure pupils feel seen, understood, and safe.
Evidence and resources
3. Communicate effectively with families
Design effective communication strategies.
Evidence and resources
5. Deliver targeted interventions to supplement universal provision
Personalise approaches to meet the needs of individual pupils.
Evidence and resources
6. Monitor the impact of approaches
Determine the effectiveness of an approach.
Key guidance report
Guidance Reports
Effective Professional Development
Promote, deliver, and design high-quality learning opportunities.
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