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Dr Swain 𝗗𝗿 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝘄𝗮𝗶𝗻 From your 2024 whole class teaching article. "In secondary settings we all know the common phrase that it can be seven years of difference between your highest and lowest achieving students." At which curriculum year is the "single learning objective"?

Professor Sutherland Professor Margaret Sutherland and Dr Reid Dr Catherine Reid This is striking from Dr Nathaniel Swain's Harnessing the Science of Learning about a school in Australia. I would be intererested to hear if you know about any comparable school in Scotland, state or private.

Prof Sutherland Professor Margaret Sutherland and Dr Reid Dr Catherine Reid Matthew Evans Matthew Evans promotes the new English adaptive teaching as the current solution around SEND difficulties there. Teachers respond to pupils' needs so that they may "move forward in a lock-step fashion".

Prof Sutherland Professor Margaret Sutherland and Dr Reid Dr Catherine Reid A strong view on the necessity of genuine differentiation. How possible or realistic is it in mixed-ability classes at Secondary with a spectrum of 7 years of curriculum level attainment?

Professor Sutherland Professor Margaret Sutherland and Dr Reid Dr Catherine Reid This is apparently a direct quote from Professor Wiliam Dylan Wiliam. “Our job is to destroy the bell curve” I don't see it that way at all actually. I see the role of education as maximising the potential of all learners.

Professor Sutherland Professor Margaret Sutherland and Dr Reid Dr Catherine Reid "...'adaptive teaching'...the concept of flexible teaching that moves with young people's needs, and which does not create separate work for learners in the same setting."

Prof Sutherland Professor Margaret Sutherland and Dr Reid Dr Catherine Reid I am looking forward to this. I understand that it is going to produce the evidence base for the new English adaptive teaching that none of us have seen as yet.

Prof Sutherland Professor Margaret Sutherland and Dr Reid Dr Catherine Reid eg question was asked 6 years ago in response to Ofsted commentary about differentiation and adaptive teaching. No answer was given. Nor will it ever be. Ofsted is never going to apply "teach to the top" literally here.

Prof Sutherland Professor Margaret Sutherland and Dr Reid Dr Catherine Reid this is why mixed ability teaching fails high ability learners. Especially the 10%ers to the far left. Bored to distraction. Not engaging. Not having to do the mental work of understanding something new and applying it.

Prof Sutherland Professor Margaret Sutherland Dr Reid Dr Catherine Reid ASN Reform Scotland I would be with Peps Mccrea on the general concept of direct instruction. But not as a substitute for additional support for learning. I don't like this new English "adaptive teaching", relying on one size fits all.

Professor Sutherland Professor Margaret Sutherland Dr Reid Dr Catherine Reid ASN Reform Scotland This is a focused, powerful and uncompromising report on additional support for learning from the Scottish Assembly for Parents and Carers today. It specifically includes highly able learners.

Prof Sutherland Professor Margaret Sutherland and Dr Reid Dr Catherine Reid I just can't get this high challenge, low threat narrative at all. It strikes me as magic thinking to proceed on the basis that one size can fit all with a spectrum of attainment at age 11/12 of 7 years.