Inclusive Practice: ADHD (6-hour, face-to-face course)
Understand · Respond · Include
Part of Inclusion by Team Teach
Inclusive Practice: ADHD is a practical, face-to-face, CPD-certified course from Inclusion by Team Teach. It helps schools build consistent, evidence-informed practice that educators can apply immediately.
Overview
This CPD-certified course has been created to provide practical support to anyone working with children or young people with ADHD in schools and education settings.
Many of us are aware of ADHD and the impact it can have on learning and engagement, but it can be difficult to know how we should adapt everyday practice to support our students more inclusively, and how we can respond more confidently and consistently to meet their individual needs.
Inclusive Practice: ADHD helps staff understand how ADHD may affect a child or young person’s attention, executive functioning, emotional regulation and classroom participation.
Course attendees will learn practical, inclusive strategies for real-life situations, to enable students with ADHD to participate effectively in learning, build self-esteem and independence, engage with staff, peers and their environment successfully, and develop a strong sense of belonging.
The 6-hour course covers:
- ADHD as a neurodevelopmental difference, and common barriers faced in an education setting.
- How ADHD may affect attention, emotional regulation, and executive function.
- Different presentations of ADHD, and how these can be influenced by wider contextual factors.
- Practical adaptations and adjustments to increase engagement, improve communication, and support sensory needs.
- How positive, proactive approaches can help develop self-esteem, social-emotional learning, and independence.
- Understanding the graduated approach, legal responsibilities, and the importance of effective partnership with families.
Who is this course for?
Anyone working with children or young people who would like to learn more about ADHD, how it can be a barrier to learning and participation in school life, how unmet needs can shape behaviour, and practical strategies to support students through creating more inclusive and effective learning environments.
Headteachers, senior leaders, SENDCOs, inclusion leads, MAT leaders, teachers, teaching assistants, learning support staff, behaviour leads and pastoral teams.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Explain current evidence-informed perspectives on ADHD and how executive functioning, regulation and stress influence behaviour, learning and participation.
- Recognise how ADHD presents differently across individuals and understand the impact of intersectionality, including why some pupils may be under-identified or diagnosed later.
- Apply practical, strengths-based strategies that reduce barriers, support regulation and improve engagement within mainstream classrooms.
- Use the graduated approach to identify needs, implement reasonable adjustments and evaluate the effectiveness of support.
- Develop consistent, inclusive approaches that strengthen partnerships with families and improve outcomes for pupils with ADHD.
What the course covers
How does this course differ from other ADHD training?
This course:
- Explains the cause behind the behaviour: covers the executive function and regulation difficulties driving behaviour, so the strategies make sense rather than feeling like a checklist.
- Intersectionality runs through every section: race, gender, class, sex, language and other identities run through the whole day, covering who gets missed, misread or adultified, rather than sitting in a single add on slide.
- Strengths based throughout: creativity, hyperfocus, enthusiasm and resilience are named alongside the difficulties, so ADHD isn’t framed purely as a deficit.
- Focuses on the system: strategies focus on redesigning the environment (visibility, decision budgets, environmental anchors) rather than asking children to try harder or remember more.
- Built to last beyond the day: the workbook, with its activities and glossary of terms, helps staff embed the learning back at school rather than just recall it.
Additional info:
- Certificates are valid for 12 months.
- A branded participant digital workbook is included, with activities, a glossary and a legal quick reference section.
- Access to the inclusion Knowledge Hub with 20+ hours of downloadable resources, videos, articles, podcasts, live and recorded webinars, practical tools and insights to strengthen positive inclusion practices.
The Team Teach Experience
Team Teach is an accredited, award-winning provider of training in behavioural support strategies. The Team Teach approach and philosophy have been developed by practitioners with over 25 years’ experience in delivering respectful, accessible and practical behaviour, inclusion and SEND support solutions.
Team Teach has supported more than 13,000 settings globally to develop effective approaches to behaviour support and reduce the need for restrictive physical intervention when responding to behaviours of concern.
Our work has consistently shown that behaviour cannot be considered in isolation. Understanding the individual needs, communication, environment and circumstances that influence behaviour is central to creating safe, supportive and inclusive environments.
This understanding provides a natural foundation for our work in inclusion and SEND. Drawing on our experience of working with educators and support staff across a wide range of settings, our inclusion training focuses on helping staff better understand the needs of children and young people, recognise barriers to participation and learning, and put practical strategies in place to support inclusion.
By connecting inclusive practice with behaviour support, we help settings take a more proactive approach: understanding needs earlier, adapting practice where appropriate and creating environments in which children and young people are better able to engage, learn and thrive.
We are the only company of our kind to have received a National Training Award, the highest level of award in the UK. Focused on teamwork and communication, our courses foster supportive working practices, helping people recognise the needs of the children and adults they work with, offer help where necessary, and be able to make use of support when offered.
Ready to book your training?
Please select your course from the available dates and locations.
You can book online using a valid credit card or generate an invoice for your employer.
By purchasing this training, you acknowledge that Team Teach Connect is included as part of your purchase. The Team Teach Connect fee will be billed to your setting only once the trainee(s) are certified.
Questions?
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