Product reviews for Adaptive Teaching

 A must read for every classroom practitioner. An easy read which explores the issues that are relevant in every classroom today. Young encourages us to ‘tackle the barrier not the child’ whilst totally accepting the systemic problems that are in existence and acknowledges that issues won’t be solved quickly.

The encouragement to become ‘detectives’ beyond a label or diagnosis (which he argues are necessary but not sufficient) enables staff to identify underlying barriers of the big three cognitive areas, providing understand­ing to empower teachers to put provision in place sooner rather than later.

I recommend all teachers, at whatever level of experience they are, to dive in – and if we can all achieve the culture of barrier removal in every class­room then we can be optimistic about the achievement of all children.