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Understanding Response To Intervention (RTI) / Teacher Support

RTI is a framework that uses data-driven problem solving to identify student needs and match appropriate instructional interventions. It involves three tiers of support, with increasingly intensive interventions provided to students who do not demonstrate adequate progress. The goal is to intervene early when students first show signs of struggling, rather than waiting for them to fail. RTI provides support for academic, behavioral, and social-emotional needs through collaboration between general education and special education teachers. It aims to help all students succeed by determining the reasons for difficulties and adjusting instruction accordingly.

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Understanding Response To Intervention (RTI) / Teacher Support

RTI is a framework that uses data-driven problem solving to identify student needs and match appropriate instructional interventions. It involves three tiers of support, with increasingly intensive interventions provided to students who do not demonstrate adequate progress. The goal is to intervene early when students first show signs of struggling, rather than waiting for them to fail. RTI provides support for academic, behavioral, and social-emotional needs through collaboration between general education and special education teachers. It aims to help all students succeed by determining the reasons for difficulties and adjusting instruction accordingly.

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Understanding Response to Intervention

(RTI)/ Teacher Support


How would you define RTI?
Something has to change
• Our traditional school system was designed
to sort students
• The majority of special education students
are receiving services because they cannot
read
• General education teachers need more
tools than “refer to special ed”
There is no way a single teacher
has all the time,
all the knowledge,
and all the skills
to meet all the needs
of every child in his or her class(es).
Buffman, Mattos, & Webber 2009

As a community we do and we can.


What is Response to Intervention?

• Create a community of support

• Identify and intervene early

• Focus
At on First
its core, RTIInstruction
is about
coming together to help all
students succeed.
The right Response begins with
the right Questions

•Who are my students? What do they need to


learn? How can I help when they struggle?

•Why are some still struggling? What other skills


to they need?

•Did it work? Is there another way?


Response to Intervention is a systematic,
intentional way of asking these questions.

Family + Community Behavior + Mental Health

Academic Achievement
What is Response to Intervention?
The Big 3
• Data: RTI is a way of using data to systematically identify
the reasons why a student is struggling.

• Problem Solving: RTI is a way of helping the teacher, the


parent and the student understand the difficulty, the goal,
how to get there, and how to know when they have
arrived.
• Instruction & Intervention: RTI is a framework for
systematically determining how well instruction is
working for individual students and making adjustments
to accelerate learning for all.
What is Response to Intervention?
The Big 3
The RTI Pyramid
Data, Problem Solving, Intervention

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TIER 1
Who are our students? What do they need to learn? How
can I help them when they struggle?
The RTI Pyramid
Data, Problem Solving, Intervention

TIER 3
Data: Add’l Diagnostics/PM
Problem Solving: SST
Intervention: Intensify

TIER 2
Data: Diagnostic Assessment/Progress Monitoring
Problem Solving: Collaborative Team
Intervention: More time + more targeted

TIER 1
Data: Universal Screening
Problem Solving: Professional Learning Communities
Intervention: Core Curriculum & Small Group Instruction
Response to Intervention is not…
• Special ed
• A new program
• A new assessment
• “DIBELing”
• An intervention curriculum
• A new barrier to special ed services
• An easier way to get special ed services
• A place to send difficult students
Response to Intervention
A formal definition

Response to Intervention (RTI) is a way to help


students at the first sign of difficulty.  RTI
supports academic, behavioral and community
needs through systems of data analysis,
problem solving, instruction and intervention.
 RTI is not a program but a process: a way to
identify who is at-risk, why they are struggling,
and how we can support them as a community.
What this means for educators
• We don’t have to wait until a child has failed to act
• We are called on to employ systems of collaboration and
problem solving to identify difficulties early and with
enough specificity to intervene
• General Ed and Special Ed can benefit from each other’s
expertise
• All students have access to support at the first sign of
struggle
• These are OUR kids, and all of us are responsible for
ensuring that all students learn
What this means for Special Ed
PREVIOUSLY… NOW…
A student had a Specific Learning Students may also be identified as
Disability if and only if their disabled if they do not respond to
achievement scores were significantly scientifically based instruction and
discrepant from their cognitive scores. intervention implemented with fidelity.

Up to 15% of funds can be used to


Special Ed funds could only be used support early intervention with
for Special Ed students – only General Ed students and cross
students already identified as departmental collaboration is
disabled could benefit from the condoned as part of supporting ALL
expertise and services of the students
department.

It’s not Special Ed, it’s not General Ed – It’s just Ed!
The wrong questions:
• How do we implement RTI?
• How do we get students proficient on
state tests?
• How do we stay legal?
• What is wrong with the student?
The right questions:
• What do we want for our children?
• What do our children need?
• What is our current reality?
• What do we need to do?
• How will we do it?

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