A Guide to Adaptive Teaching with Showbie

In today’s classrooms, teachers support a wide range of learner needs while aiming to uphold high expectations for every student.

Adaptive teaching has emerged as a key response to this challenge. Recognised in both the Early Career Framework and EEF guidance, it moves beyond the limitations of traditional differentiation, which often depended on pre-planned, separate tasks. Instead, it encourages a more inclusive and responsive approach to supporting all learners.

Our latest guide is a practical resource designed to help educators implement adaptive teaching with confidence.

What’s Inside

This downloadable PDF contains six key ways to bring adaptive teaching to life in your classroom using Showbie, including how to:

• Maintain high expectations while supporting access

• Respond to learners in real time using formative data

• Embed student voice, choice, and reflection

• Scaffold learning without stigma

• Make learning visible through multimodal tools

• Collaborate across teams and families to meet learner needs

Each section links research to practice — showing how Showbie supports truly inclusive, responsive teaching.

Who Should Read This Guide?

This guide is for anyone working to improve teaching, learning, and inclusion across primary classrooms. Whether you're shaping trust-wide strategy or delivering lessons day to day, this resource supports consistent, research-informed practice.

School & Trust Leaders

Use the guide to align Showbie with your approach to adaptive teaching, build consistency, and support evidence-based school improvement.

Teaching & Learning Leads

Incorporate it into CPD sessions, lesson planning, instructional coaching, and departmental alignment.

Classroom Teachers

Apply adaptive teaching strategies that are practical, proven, and ready to fit into your existing routines.

SEND Teams

Design inclusive, accessible learning experiences that meet the needs of every learner.