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Differentiation

Adapting teaching, tasks, support or outcomes so that pupils with different needs can all make progress.

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All four UK nations (details may differ), United States, International
Topic
Teaching and learning

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Adaptive teaching England
The approach preferred in England's teacher frameworks: responding to pupils' needs in the lesson through planning, support and adjustments while keeping high expectations for all, rather than creating many separate tasks.
Scaffolding All four UK nations (details may differ) United States International
Temporary support, such as prompts, models, sentence starters or worked examples, that helps a learner complete a task they could not yet do alone and is gradually removed.

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