In this blog, we’ll explore 7 adaptive teaching strategies that can help tutors better support SEN learners and improve engagement. If you’ve ever finished a session feeling like nothing quite landed, the student seemed disengaged, the worksheet went untouched, or progress felt impossibly slow, you’re not alone. Many tutors instinctively know that something needs to change but aren’t sure what. The answer is often adaptive teaching strategies: small, deliberate adjustments that meet learners where they actually are, rather than where we assume they should...

I think we can all remember a time in education when we just didn’t get something. For me, it was learning about Pi in Year 7. Infinite numbers? Circles? Let me go and explore Pi in a Food Tech class, thank you very much. It wasn’t until my teacher showed me visually by zooming and zooming in on a circle that the penny dropped. It only made sense to me in that moment. So, why didn’t I get it before? Every learner is different. Every person sees the world in a different way. Conveying information is easy enough, unless you’re trying to remember Pi off the top of your head, but...

Every April, conversations around autism become more visible. We see more posts, more awareness, more reminders to be inclusive. And while that matters, it often stops short of something deeper, understanding. In education, that gap is significant. We talk about adapting lessons and supporting autistic learners, but rarely pause to ask a simpler, more important question: What does this learner actually need from me? Because the answer is rarely found in a checklist. A 2026 survey by Ambitious about Autism, reported by The Guardian, found that: 1 in 6 autistic pupils have...