This free Adaptive Teaching Diagnostic and Rubric is a school self-evaluation framework designed to help leaders review the quality and consistency of adaptive teaching across a school. It outlines key dimensions of effective practice, including shared expectations, planning for barriers to learning, responsive formative assessment, effective scaffolding, flexible grouping, use of additional adults and technology, inclusive approaches for SEND/EAL pupils, and professional learning. Each dimension is described across four stages of development (Emerging, Developing, Secure, and Leading), enabling leaders to identify current practice and understand what stronger implementation looks like.
Alongside the rubric, the resource provides prompts, observable evidence, and suggested data sources to support structured school review. Leaders are encouraged to gather evidence through lesson visits, planning scrutiny, staff discussion, pupil voice, and assessment information, then record strengths, areas for development, and short-term actions for improvement. The framework is designed to support ongoing improvement cycles and can be used within a school's quality assurance processes to monitor teaching, guide professional development, and strengthen inclusive classroom practice.
Use this framework to carry out effective self evaluations of adaptive teaching in your school and provide evidence-based feedback. Schools can use it independently or integrate it directly into our Flourish Quality Assurance software, where reviews can be stored, analysed, and tracked using powerful reporting tools such as heat maps and trend analysis.