Response To Intervention

Response to intervention is an approach to proving services and intervention to students who are struggling to learn at cumulative levels of intensity. RTI is used at many schools to assess, plan for, screen, and provide interventions for any student that is at risk of school failure due to behavior and academic needs. RTI is an initiative that takes place in the general education environment and also makes the decision whether instruction needs to be modified. Just like any other approach RTI has pros and cons. One pro of the RTI is that it requires very little educational disruption for testing. Other pros of RTI include being able to apply it to students of any age, not entailing a student to be failing for a significant period of time

Working with my focus learner, at the beginning, I was doubtful if any progress would be made. However, i was pleasantly surprised. She actually made big strides in such a short time. By the second week, she was grasping the idea of sequencing and deepening her understanding of text material. Both the focus learner and me were shocked when we noticed she sequenced the story correctly by the second week of intervention. The week prior i had doubted if my focus learner would be able to successfully sequence.To my surprise correctly sequenced a few of the stories I believe my focus learner transitioned from just simply listening to stories to trying to make connections to her everyday life. Although my learner still needs a lot of work with her

The aim of Tier 2 is to catch students’ problems early, provide basic targeted interventions within the general education environment, and prevent long-term negative impact. The goal of a Tier 2 intervention is to support students in meeting grade level benchmarks and catching up to their same aged peers through evidence-based interventions. Examples of Tier 2 interventions are extra reading supports, behavior charts, or home-school notes. After continuous progress monitoring, a problem-solving team may then decide to place a student back into Tier 1, continue Tier 2 interventions, or consider evaluating the student for more intensive Tier 3 services. Ideally, if early intervention is working well at Tiers 1 and 2, only about 5% of children should need services at the intensity of Tier 3. Special education services, such as speech therapy, resource classes, and self-contained classes, are considered Tier 3 services. Tier 3 services typically require students to have an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) because they offer specially designed instruction. MTSS is intended to address both academic and emotional-behavioral difficulties, and this study will address a Tier 1 universal behavior

Discussion and implications. What do the results suggest is important to apply in professional practice. What do the conclusions/results mean for students with learning disabilities, researchers, practitioners, teachers, or parents of students with learning disabilities. (2)

Many struggling readers in middle school are disengaged from reading. In addition to low achievement, these students can have low motivation for reading. Many factors contribute to disengagement in middle school. Reading instruction is often disconnected from content, making reading tedious. Textbooks are formidable, and students are expected to respond to text with formal criticism or outlining rather than personal reactions. Middle school often shows an increase teacher control and a curtailment of student freedom, as compared to elementary school. Finally, students are too often removed from the social support of teachers and are expected to compete rather than cooperate with each other in reading. To provide support for engaged reading,

As far back as I can remember I was able to read with ease. I loved reading! Nothing beat getting lost in a good book. So, I have struggled to understand why some people hate reading so much. Now as a mother of a struggling reader my perspective has changed. There have been countless nights of me, chasing down my son, to fight through a book in order to get through his 20-minute reading requirement for school. And let me tell you it was torture, for the both of us! This nightly event turned reading into a monster to be avoided at all costs, not something to enjoy. The frustration and pain of failing takes its toll on struggling readers and slowly it was defeating my son. Research suggests that the single greatest factor in helping struggling readers read better more exposure to reading. However, in my experience struggling readers do not particularly enjoy reading and defiantly do not want to do extra reading in their free time. I know from personal experience with my own child it was extremely difficult to get him to try doing extra reading at home without starting a huge fight. It is heartbreaking to watch your child cry over trying to read and tell you they are “too

Established in 1988, Roca Inc. utilizes an evidence based intervention model to disrupt the cycle of violence and poverty. This program places young at-risk populations on a positive trajectory – those who have entered the criminal or juvenile system, those involved in criminal behaviors, those who may have dropped out of school, or those who have been too difficult for other programs.

The Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System (TVAAS) is a system that measures districts and schools on how well they can raise the student's scores. TVAAS does this by analyzing the students through assessment data that shows the progress of the students, district, and schools. This information is a way to see if the teachers are meeting the academic goal of their students. The way they determine the achievement of individual students is through progress data. The data is measured at specific times that relate to the student’s demographics and student performance on a standard. The progress data helps to show the individual students academic growth and success throughout the school year. Moreover, it helps the teacher identify what strategies benefit the student growth the best. Overall, progress data and measuring achievement helps the teacher find out which student is advanced and which one is not advanced in the classroom. This

What are some of the issues this family is facing prior to making a transition decision?

According to Cohen (1989), suggested that homeless population is extremely living in abject poverty. Homeless people have undergone through severe losses including loss of their homes, neighborhood, social roles, family, and friends. Also, homeless individual stands to be stigmatized and socially isolated. Homeless people have no control of their environment and do not know what they will eat or where they will sleep from day to day. Homeless individuals are at risk every day as a result of violence because they live in hostile environment.

Readings is the most fundamental skills taught in schools today. According to Weber (2012), reading unlocks information, provides the tools to problem solve, builds vocabulary and refunds comprehension skills. Subsequently, high expectations are translated into literary standards that have been developed to promote proficiency for early learning. Key components of successful reading instruction, as suggested by Weber (2012) including, explicit instruction, guided practice, on going assessment and diagnosing reading difficulties early. A response to intervention (RTI) or multi-tiered intervention program can address each of these elements systematically in order to ensure student success in literacy.

On Monday, October, 12, 2015 I had the opportunity to attend a RTI (Response-to -Intervention) meeting with my cooperating general education teacher. The Response-to-Intervention model consists of the use of tiered instructional processes. Although the assessment components of RTI are crucial to the process, it is the instruction that takes place that truly affects the changes teachers hope to see in students who are identified as being on some level of risk for not meeting academic standards. Tiered instruction represents a approach where the instruction delivered to students varies is related to the severity and type of the student's difficulties.

There is a slight difference between miscue analysis and retrospective miscue analysis. When a teacher conducts a miscue analysis with a student she listens to a student read and marks their miscues. After the reading has taken place and she has marked the miscues and jotted down any notes the student then retells the story to the teacher. In retrospective miscue analysis the student and teacher do the same thing as a miscue analysis but allows the student to discuss their miscues with the teacher after the reading. It allows the student to discuss and reflect on their own miscues with the teacher.

The Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA2) is a formal assessment designed to assess students in Kindergarten through eighth grade. It provides educators with two different kits, K-3 and 4-8, to use for assessment. The K-3 kit is used with students in primary grades to observe, document, and assess reading skills over time. This assessment yields students’ information about reading engagement, oral reading fluency, and comprehension through the administration of this assessment. The DRA2 provides formative information about student’s independent and instructional reading level, which will better inform the teacher in the areas in which helps to inform areas of instruction that would be beneficial.

Describe how your understanding and application of the term “intervention” has changed after considering Lopez’s remarks in Chapter 10.