Adaptive Power Teaching

This programme is shaped by the government’s Every Child Achieving and Thriving Schools White Paper, which sets a national expectation that every teacher delivers high‑quality adaptive teaching as part of the universal support offer for pupils with SEND.

To help you meet this ambition with confidence, within this programme we have developed an Inclusion Toolkit—a practical, research‑informed resource developed and successfully used in North East classrooms with high levels of SEND and deprivation, where it has strengthened teacher practice and improved outcomes for learners with diverse needs.

Adaptive Power Teaching (APT) is a complete set of tools which scaffold learning, engagement and oracy to safeguard and accelerate progress. APT was created in the most challenging classrooms in our region, transforming outcomes for ALL. For over a decade this system has been proven to work across any type of school setting by empowering teachers to push high attainment even further, whilst simultaneously scaffolding learning for ALL.

Training Programmes:

Power Teaching Primary Programme: Suitable for all year groups and curriculum areas across the primary phase. Radical improvements in oracy, engagement and behaviour safeguard and accelerate progress across the curriculum.
Power Writing Primary Programme: Power Writing provides a writing infrastructure which safeguards and accelerates writing progress and attainment across the primary phase. Writing will soon be formally tested again, in Y6, this programme will support schools to develop whole school structures and systems to facilitate the consistent and effective teaching of writing.
Power Reading Secondary Programme: Power Reading provides a reading infrastructure which safeguards and accelerates reading progress and attainment across Ks3. Created by a DfE Approved Phonics provider, Power Reading closes reading gaps quickly and effectively.
Power Maths Secondary Programme: Power Reading provides a reading infrastructure which safeguards and accelerates reading progress and attainment across Ks3, providing all staff with the tools and methods needed to effectively teach all aspects of reading across all developmental stages.

All Power Teaching programmes are created by a DfE Approved Phonics provider, and include the following elements:

Training 6 x 2hr sessions at school or at Newcastle University
Additional classroom training and support available
Flexible timing
Unlimited participants per school: Leadership and Teaching Staff welcome
For more information, please see our Adaptive Power Teaching Booklet or contact us at elcoffice@newcastle.ac.uk