Inclusion by Team Teach.


A Holistic, Whole-School Approach to Inclusion and Behaviour for Classrooms

Empower your staff, strengthen whole-school inclusion and improve outcomes for every learner.

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The Evolving Inclusion Landscape
As classrooms become more complex, reactive interventions have limited impact and don’t create longer-term change. This increases workload, isolates specialists, and leaves teaching teams feeling unable to effectively support complex neurodivergent, SEND and SEMH student profiles.

It strains workloads, isolates specialists, and leaves teaching teams feeling underprepared to handle complex neurodivergent, SEND and SEMH student profiles in a busy environment.

Classroom teachers are caught in a constant balancing act between maintaining whole-class academic progress and supporting a sharp rise in complex, diverse neurodivergent profiles. Without a flexible framework, teachers feel perpetually torn between keeping the lesson moving and making endless individual adjustments that add hours to their workload.

Teaching assistants and support staff stand on the frontline during the most high-stress, unpredictable moments of the school day. While deeply committed to their pupils, they frequently feel underprepared and under-resourced to navigate volatile, high-anxiety behaviour with calm, informed confidence.

Pastoral teams and behaviour leads spend vital hours reacting to classroom disruptions after they have already spiralled into full emotional or sensory crises. When foundational communication blocks go unrecognised early in the lesson, pastoral staff remain trapped in an exhausting cycle of reactive discipline rather than proactive prevention.

At the centre of it all, SENDCOs and inclusion leads operate as an exhausted single bottleneck for every day-to-day challenge. Because classroom teams lack a shared vocabulary and framework for support, SENDCOs are constantly pulled into minor classroom fires instead of devoting their time to high-need specialist interventions.

Team Teach Supports Sustainable Whole-school Inclusion by Relieving These Frontline Pressures Through a Holistic, Whole-school, Shared Framework.
Uniting your entire setting around a shared framework that turns reactive firefighting into a calmer, inclusive environments, where every pupil can thrive.

At Team Teach, Our 25-Year History in Education is Built on a Transformative, Holistic Ideology:

All Behaviour is Communication

By adapting the environment to support a child’s underlying sensory and cognitive profile, teaching teams can proactively reduce the frequency and intensity of crisis points, transforming escalating situations into predictable moments of co-regulation.

Partnering with Team Teach means adopting a shared framework that unites your entire staff team, from leadership to classroom assistants, in a consistent approach to school culture.

Team Teach are The Perfect Partner to Support Inclusion In Your school
Team Teach have proven experience building inclusive learning environments for a diverse range of needs, rooted in years of special education and leadership.

Inclusion requires a deep understanding of child psychology, sensory processing needs, and emotional regulation. We have spent over two decades helping practitioners to foster positive behaviour cultures and develop whole-school inclusion.

  • Our footprint in UK special education:

    Team Teach is the trusted training provider for [X]% of all SEND schools across the UK, working hand-in-hand with specialist educators to understand exactly how to help children feel safe, regulated, and included.

  • Led by experienced special school leadership:

    Our training programmes are developed under the guidance of Chief Learning and Development Officer, Jonathan Newport, a former headteacher of a Barnardo’s special school.

Practical, Face-to-Face Inclusion Training
Team Teach training helps schools adapt the learning environment using early intervention strategies.

Rather than abstract theory, Team Teach trains your staff together using real-world scenarios, de-escalation scripts, and hands-on environmental adaptation techniques.

By learning to recognise the early signs of sensory or emotional distress, staff can proactively de-escalate situations to reduce risk for everyone.

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The Impact of A Unified Inclusion Culture on Your School
Team Teach have proven experience building inclusion learning environments for a diverse range of needs, rooted in years of special education and leadership.

  • Proactive environmental adaptation: Adjustments to light, sound, seating, and spaces reduce sensory overload, creating accessible environments.

  • Early trigger recognition: Staff learn to spot subtle physical, sensory, and verbal indicators of anxiety early, enabling gentle adjustments that keep pupils safely engaged in the classroom.

  • Immediate co-regulation: Educators practice co-regulation techniques that help distressed pupils regulate their emotions.

How Does Team Teach Support Inclusion Across Different Roles Within a School?
Empowering classroom staff to create inclusive environments and spot and intervene at the early signs of dysregulation it reduces the volume of escalated behaviour incidents, which in turn reduces the pressure on senior staff and SENDCos freeing up their time to implement strategic school wide inclusion strategies.

For classroom teachers and teaching assistants, Team Teach transforms daily practice by turning high-stress moments into predictable opportunities for co-regulation. frontline staff gain the practical de-escalation skills and shared vocabulary needed to lower classroom anxiety. This unified approach keeps teaching accessible to all learners and can reduce the need for exclusions.

his cultural shift dramatically impacts the strategic focus of SENDCOs and Inclusion Leads. By distributing universal SEND and SEMH capability across the entire staff team, Team Teach removes operational bottlenecks where only a few specialists are responsible for inclusion. Instead, every educator is empowered to deliver confident quality first teaching that accommodates diverse sensory and emotional needs seamlessly within a mainstream setting.

For headteachers and school leaders, this training establishes a legally compliant framework that drives an inclusive whole-school culture. By equipping staff with the skills to de-escalate distress safely within the classroom, schools may see a reduction in internal exclusion rates and a boost in staff morale. This builds lasting confidence across the workforce while aligning with inspection expectations for embedding inclusion at every level of school life.

Ultimately, the impact of this training is felt by the pupils themselves. Children and young people experience predictable, sensory-adapted learning spaces. Vulnerable learners feel understood, physically safe, and emotionally regulated, supporting them to remain in the classroom and participate fully in learning alongside their peers.

What Changes Will You See In Your School When Partnering With Team Teach?
When your whole school community implements Team Teach training, the shift is in the culture itself. Right after our face-to-face sessions, headteachers, SENDCOs, classroom teachers, and teaching assistants experience a shared sense of confidence, with a unified, inspection-ready approach to inclusion.

Teachers and TAs leave the room equipped with practical, repeatable techniques they can apply on without adding hours to their workload, while leadership teams feel reassured that the whole school is moving in the same supportive direction.

Classroom teachers can experience fewer low-level disruptions, and a predictable environment where pupils can learn and participate fully. SENDCOs can see teaching teams empowered to independently implement reasonable adjustments, freeing up vital specialist time. School leaders can work towards a reduction in internal suspensions, a lift in overall staff wellbeing, and an inclusive school culture for everyone.

Demonstrable Results of Partnering With Team Teach
Independently verified statistics have shown that many schools that partner with Team Teach for behaviour support have improved Ofsted ratings, lower suspension rates, better student progress and more confident staff.

96% Improved school ratings.

96% of primary schools partnering with Team Teach in 2019 improved to Good or Outstanding behaviour ratings by 2024.

3x Better student progress scores.

Special secondary schools partnering with Team Teach improved Progress 8 scores 3x.

40% Lower suspension rates.

Suspension rates at special primary schools partnering with Team Teach are 40% lower than other similar schools.

Boosted staff confidence.

Team Teach training boosts confidence in behaviour support—rising from 47% to 90% for first-time participants and from 72% to 94% for returning delegates.

Two Dedicated Paths. One Unified Approach

Inclusion by Team Teach launches with two face-to-face training courses. These help staff understand how neurodivergence can affect learning, communication, regulation, behaviour, and transition points.

Inclusive Practice: Autism

Inclusive Practice: Autism is a CPD-certified, face-to-face training programme that helps staff understand what sits behind a pupil’s response, not just the behaviour itself.

Grounded in current research on autism, sensory processing and inclusive practice, the training helps staff recognise the sensory, communication and environmental factors that are potential barriers to learning. This gives staff practical strategies they can use, along with the confidence to use them consistently.

The result: fewer moments of escalation, and classrooms where every pupil can participate with confidence.


Inclusive Practice: ADHD

Inclusive Practice: ADHD is a CPD-certified, face-to-face training programme that helps staff understand the cognitive, emotional and behavioural characteristics of ADHD, and what they mean for the classroom.

As ADHD is more widely recognised in mainstream schools, this training gives staff evidence-informed strategies for supporting engagement, regulation and communication.

This builds practical skills staff can use straight away, and the confidence to apply them consistently.


Learning That Continues Beyond the Training Session.
Every participant receives individual access to the Team Teach Knowledge Hub.

Your face-to-face programme includes access to a comprehensive resource bank to continue your learning:

  • 20+ Hours of SEND Resources:  The latest thinking around inclusion created by our team of specialists.
  • Practical Tools: Tools, templates, audits and resources to customise for your school.
  • Ongoing Professional Development: Evidence-informed, up-to-date content designed to keep pace with your needs.

    Help Your School Build More Inclusive Practice

    The demands on schools are changing.

    Equip your staff with the understanding, confidence, and practical strategies they need to support learning, understand barriers to participation, and improve outcomes.

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