CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK Three Years Intervention Strategy Plan-Anderson Regional School District __________________________________________ Patricia Bell Marileidy Fermin Terry Milligan Tony Morris Christina Paffilas June 27, 2015 SWK 650: Advanced Standing Seminar PROF. GEORGE S. TSAGARIS TABLE OF CONTENTS Intervention Strategies for Education- Micro 3 Intervention Strategies for Education- Mezzo 12 Intervention Strategies for Education- Macro 14 Appendices 18 References 19 Intervention Strategies for Education- Micro Problem The Johnson family has been referred to our agency to improve education level in both siblings who are part of this family which is composed by Ms. Johnson the mother and her two children Tony Johnson and Tiera Johnson. This family lives in Anderson Regional School District. The HOPE
The micro level intervention that this writer would use is individual counseling. Individual counseling would allow this writer to learn about each client individually and what basic needs are not being met in their lives. This writer could assist each client in finding shelters, employment, care for physical and mental health problems and other services to help meet the client’s basic needs. An example of this micro intervention can be seen at the Center for Urban Community Services in New York City according to Lorenzo & Barbosa,
Disability is when a child or young person has special education needs, which stands for SEN. The children's and families act 2014 states that "If she or he has a learning disability which calls for special educational provision to be made for him or her".
This article was based on the history of how early intervention for children of poverty and with developmental disabilities can have remarkable results and improvement in cognitive, academic, and social efforts. In 1954 the idea of early intervention was introduced considering the Brown v. the Board of Education, the desegregated case that guaranteed the right of all children to a decent education. During this time, psychologists and professors discovered that Black children who were entering public schools were at an educational disadvantage compared to the White children in their class. During World War II an assessment for intelligence was given in which resulted of white men were from a poorer, less educated area of the country scored worse
The article that I choose to complete my article summary on was called “The Relevance of the Alliance for CME Competencies for Planning, Organizing, and Sustaining an Interorganizational Educational Collaborative.” This article described “how the Alliance Competencies were exemplified in the activities of the partners, leading to educational activities that contributed to improvements in clinician performance and patient outcomes. There are 8 areas of alliance competencies supported in this article. The areas consist of Adult Organizational, Educational Interventions, Performance Measurement, Systems Thinking, Leadership, Administration/Management, and Self-Assessment and Lifelong Learning. Since there are predictions that the expectations of health professions change, so does educational performance expectations. The 8 areas described in the article provided support for planning and evaluating the expectations. Three main points addressed in the article are Educational
The time spent in the response to intervention classroom for observation has really been an eye opener. Response to intervention is a program to help student ‘s catch up on his or her reading and math skills outside of a regular classroom. RTI classes go from kindergarten through twelfth grade.
Response to intervention is a researched based intervention process that involves the instruction to be based off data collected in order to increase a students rate of learning. RTI is school wide and includes a multi-level system for instruction to prevent the students from failing. After intervention are put in place students are monitored for progress. Interventions can be Tier 1 (differentiated instruction in the classroom), Tier 2 (may be in the general education classroom, but may be other places), or Tier 3 ( out side of the general education classroom).
The Response to Intervention framework is a critical element of the Westside Elementary to meet the individual instructional needs of our students. The school utilizes universal screenings to access all students reading data in grades one through five, three times throughout the school year. Primarily, two assessments, STAR and Aimsweb data, determine the pathway of the students and the services deemed appropriate, including teacher information and collaboration with the MTSS team. The students partake in the assessments three times a year; fall, winter, and spring. Tiers are not stagnant; students may receive services from multiple tiers, depending on instructional, academic, and environmental needs. Therefore,
“A Critical Practice Analysis of Response to intervention Appropriation in an Urban School” written by Kathleen A. King Thorius, Brendan D. Maxcy, Erin Macey, and Adrienne Cox, highlights some key difficulties urban schools face through the enactment of Response to Intervention. Response to Intervention emerged in the early 2000’s when the field of special education was critiqued on the way they diagnosed and identified students with learning disabilities. RTI is done through interviews, mentoring and monitoring. The intensity of the intervention undergoes three or four tiers in particular; Tier 1 is when all students are provided with general education and are supervised based on the improvement and expectancy for the age and grade and Tier 2 occurs when the teachers are not noticing improvements. Tier 2 is simply when the specified students receive more skill-oriented testing and monitoring. If there is no improvement seen, they are moved to Tier 3, which is when the students receive the most intensive instruction. If there is no improvement in this tier, they are then receiving Tier 4 instruction, which is otherwise known as special education. RTI provides a structure of how to supply intervention for those children struggling academically in fields that they previously lacked. However, as displayed in this article, the context of what occurs during this meeting still requires a bit more structure.
We are founded in Alabama and we have been educating our son via Church School for years. We love it and wouldn’t want it any other way. This is why we decided to help other parents have that same freedom to teach their children. We offer a family-based educational program for grades Kindergarten to 12th grade.
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is the most common type of Sudden Unexplainable Infant Death (SUID). It is a complex condition characterized by a set of predisposing factors coupled with biopsychosocial and environmental stressors. The incidence of SIDS is low during the first month of birth – however, associated risks peaks at two to four months, and is likely
The average development of kindergarten aged children, according to John W. Santrock (2015), occurs in every area; the physical level is characterized, biologically and physically by the growth and expansion of the brain. The brain of five years-old children is three quarters of its adult size; the gray matter increases, as well as the front lobe areas giving the child ability to better plan and organize new ideas and actions. A great growth in dendrites connections with each other and "myelination" takes place, which means thousands of cells in the brain of a child are able to efficiently respond to stimuli in a matter of seconds. Likewise, the typical weight of a child between 3 and 6 years of age increases approximately 5-7 pounds, and grows 2-3 inches per year. Other manifestations of physical growth: he now has all 20 primary teeth after three years, has 20/20 vision, and eye-hand coordination at age four; and has a night sleep of 11-13 hours, usually without a nap during the day.
When working with young children, it is sometimes difficult to determine if they have special needs or they are developmentally behind. I have a toddler in my class who was born premature. All of the new girls think he is the youngest in the classroom (he is actually the second to oldest) and needs the most help. When this child gets upset, he tends to rock himself back and forth and scream. I have been asked numerous times if I think that this is a sign of autism. Considering I have worked with him for well over six months and he does not show any signs of developmental delays or learning issues, I have come to the conclusion that this is just his way of comforting himself. This is a prime example of why it is so important to know the children
Education is an ever changing system that allows teachers and families to come together to create opportunities for students throughout the country. Response to Intervention (RTI) is a model that exhibits the adaptability our education system has. RTI has a tremendous amount of positives that bring professionals, students, and guardians together to create an opportunity for those in the program to have a chance at being successful. Throughout the research we will look at the history and benefits of what RTI brings to our educational system.
Additionally, our presence and partnership at the Fairview Elementary school has given us the opportunity to care for the social, emotional, and education needs of their whole student body. Now, test scores in math, reading and science have all substantially increased. So, with your help, we would like to place a staff member at a second school location where students are struggling due to low income and difficult family circumstances. With your help, we will positively impact hundreds of students and everyone those student touch in the years to
Improving the performance of students academically and behaviorally have always been the center of interest of teachers and researchers. More importantly, limited research presented significant findings for classwide intervention. However, the method could be beneficial in aiding a large number of students through counteracting undesirable behavior before they become disruptive to the process of learning. Based on the social learning theory of Bandura, a majority of human learning is acquired through modelling, which was the focus of the present study (Richards, Heathfiled, & Jenson, 2010). Findings suggested that the imitation of the behavior is more likely to occur if similarity exist between the participant and the model. Thus, videotaped modelling intervention had been well established as an effective treatment in modifying behaviors, especially to increase the desirable ones. While self-modelling through video was indicated to be highly effective, it is only application to individuals instead of