From Adaptive Teaching to Adaptive Expertise - 3 Part series

ASCL’s Adaptive Expertise programme will equip education leaders with the skills to perform routine teaching and leadership tasks efficiently, but also to adapt and innovate when faced with novel or unexpected challenges. The three sessions will provide insight into the concept of adaptive expertise and why it is important for the development of both teaching and leadership in 2025.

This introduction to Adaptive Expertise is about knowing and understanding how we can empower ourselves and those we lead to become not just experts in our subjects or leadership areas but to develop adaptable expertise to help us and our teams to thrive in a constantly changing world. 
 
Today’s teachers must be confident and knowledgeable to respond flexibly to the constantly changing needs of their classrooms. Leaders must be able to support that development of confidence and capacity of teachers as children increasingly navigate complexity in their own lives and present with such rich diversity in our schools.

Many schools give important CPD focus to ensuring consistency and coherence of adaptive teaching routines which help bring stability and certainty to the classroom. This programme will support leaders to understand how they can maximise the impact of that expertise on pupils' experiences of the curriculum and their outcomes by taking the next steps to developing the capacity to teach and lead with flexible consistency. 
 
Session 1: The goal: Adaptive Expertise
Session 2: Developing Teacher’s Adaptive Expertise
Session 3: SEND and Adaptive Expertise
 
These three twilight sessions will support leaders to build knowledge and understanding of Adaptive Expertise. Enabling leaders to cultivate and support the flexible and adaptive decision making that teachers require to respond to the unpredictability of classrooms and go beyond routine procedures to innovate and adapt to support next steps in learning.