they did not call it adaptive teaching but in both teachers skilfully assess and instruct moment by moment mcghee hassrick et al in a similar vein yeh also suggested that achievement gaps can be closed through what he calls rapid performance feedback an individualised and structured model of instruction in which each student is presented with tasks that are challenging but not too difficult so that they have a high likelihood of receiving positive performance feedback on a daily basis interestingly there are schools around the world that already teach microadaptively eg oecd