On Monday 6 July, the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) will publish its new Guide to Inclusive Teaching – offering practical, evidence-informed advice to help teachers support every pupil to participate and succeed in school. This new guide brings together work from across the EEF around Inclusive Teaching and has been designed to support teachers and leaders throughout the school system.
Improving outcomes for pupils with additional needs is a system-wide priority, and schools are required to publish an inclusion strategy by the end of the year.
The new guide positions inclusive teaching as both:
a challenge: it requires careful thinking about how to support pupils who find the biggest barriers to learning
an opportunity: to improve teaching for all pupils and build professional knowledge and confidence
A BRAND-NEW GUIDE AND INTERACTIVE PD MATERIALS
This new guide from the EEF focuses on improving outcomes for pupils with additional needs, recognising that many pupils face multiple barriers to learning.
The guidance supports schools to:
strengthen everyday classroom practice through universal approaches
make thoughtful decisions about adaptations and additional support
implement, monitor, and sustain inclusive practice over time
INTEGRATED, INTERACTIVE SCENARIO-BASED TRAINING RESOURCES
Alongside the guide, the EEF is publishing scenario-based training resources to support implementation in real classrooms. This new interactive professional development resource will also be demonstrated at the launch, is called‘ScenarioSpace’. It will support school leaders to run fully resourced, interactive training sessions focussing on five key Inclusive Teaching topics:
Creating an inclusive classroom environment
Making effective adaptations
Checking for understanding
Scaffolding
Working with TAs
WHO IS THIS GUIDE AND RESOURCE FOR?
The guide and resources are designed primarily to be used in the review, development and professional development activity underpinning an evidence-led inclusion strategy by:
Headteachers
Deputy heads
Assistant heads
Inclusion leads
SENDCOs
Trust leaders
Teaching and learning leads
Professional development leads
The digital guide is an ‘evergreen’ resource which can be returned to again and again as they review and refine their strategy; free to access, it will be available from the EEF website on Monday 6th July 2026.
