RTI: Preventing Difficulties In The Classroom

The assigned video is explaining Response to Instruction and Intervention (RTI) . This is a plan to make decisions of the educational path of a student. It enhances education for all students and assesses whether they will need additional support with growth or more independence in reading. All of the students in the building have the opportunity to be assessed through RTI not just students with an IEP.

Response to Intervention (RtI) is a framework based off the problem solving method that integrates assessment, and targeted instruction, within a multi-tiered intervention system. Implementation of RtI in schools is crucial to identify which students need additional intervention that will help increase their literacy skills, and prevent them from falling behind. RtI is based off multi-leveled tiers that are each categorized by the intensity of the intervention that is being used. The RtI framework is also used as a valued tool in monitoring and improving student behavior in the classroom through a model known as Positive Behavioral Intervention Support (PBIS).

Throughout the RTI process it has been made very clear to me that the process was to provide students with intervention and targeted instruction to facilitate learning. I was placed on the team my first year back in the education system so I never knew anything different. However, many people viewed it as the process for referring students to special education and I have often heard comments such as “they aren’t going to qualify for services anyway so why take the time to fill out the paper work”. This is the first thing that came to mind when I read “in their well-intentioned effort to create a sense of collected responsibility among schools, some

The RTI approach promotes parent involvement and is flexible can be used in multiple subject areas. The concerns with RTI approach include: no guidelines that for moving on to the next level of RTI. The roles of the adults are not defined clearly as well in the approach. Other underlying issues with RTI include exclusion from normal classroom setting, labeling all children with learning disability and the cost for adequate training of the

The chapter goes on to address the topic of RTI (response to intervention). The purpose of RTI is to identify students that need support before they fall behind. There are three tiers for the intervention support. Tier one targets most of the students in the classroom. The teacher will assess the students

There are many schools throughout the United States that are taking on this model. School psychologist need to completely understand the RTI model to ensure students who are in need receive the best instruction. As a school psychologist, you want to help as many children as possible. Previous methods have allowed school psychologist to help those students who show they are struggling, and even then at times were not able to get to all. With this model there is no waiting for the student to show difficulties. By starting at the universal level, students at risk are selected out, and hopefully they are helped before the problem gets worse or even begins. The best part about this model is its emphasis on prevention. In order for a school psychologist to influence the most students, prevention is

The Response to Intervention (RTI) is a multi-tier approach to the early identification and support of students with learning and behavior needs. The RTI process begins with instruction and universal screening of all children in the general education classroom. Struggling learners are provided with interventions at increasing levels of intensity to accelerate their rate of learning. These services may be provided by a variety of people including general education teachers, special educators, and specialists. The RTI system is all about progress which is closely monitored to assess both the learning rate and level of performance of individual students.

RTI is unique, because it’s a set of interventions for students who are struggling academically.

The implementation of RTI (Response to intervention) was examined by Lynn S. Fuchs and was introduced in three different sections. Each tier was introduced and evaluated by the researcher. For a school to implement RTI for prevention and assessing a student, school must take measures in taking progress assessments. The article noted that schools struggle with the process of targeting students that are designed to receive the support required. The schools are supposed to employ a 1-time RTI, universal screening of all students, whereby all the students receive assessments at the begging of the school year. In progress assessments the students that indicate a score below the 25th percentile on the woodcock mastery tests, would receive preventative interventions immediately at tier one.

The response to intervention (RTI) process allows educators to respond to students’ academic and behavioral needs in the classroom. Educators can respond to student challenges by using instructional interventions to provide extra support to struggling students. An intervention is a type of instruction targeted to meet the learning and/or behavioral needs of a student. Interventions are in addition to the general classroom instruction. The interventions may vary in intensity. They can increase or decrease in intensity as determined by students’ needs. Students are progress monitored by using checkpoints to measure their performance. Progress monitoring is a

Response to Intervention (RTI) is a research-based practice created under the Early Intervening Services provision of the IDEIA Act (Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children, National Association for the Education of Young Children, and National Head Start Association, 2014, p.108). It is more specifically defined by the video “RTI and DI: The dynamic duo”, as “a research-based process that targets every child’s learning needs.” The goal of RTI is to provide every student with the individual support that they need as early as possible (Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children…, 2014, p.108). RTI was designed as an improved and

As a current early childhood professional who is working on becoming a better childcare provider and professional I see RTI playing in my future work with children. I see myself creating and using intentional learning opportunities to help each child in my program to find their optimal growth and learning. As a parent with a special needs child, early intervention is very important.

A current topic in education is response to intervention, or RTI. RTI is the practice of providing quality instruction and intervention and using student learning in response to that instruction to make instructional and important educational decisions (Batsche et al., 2005). RTI is a process used by educators to help students who are struggling with academics or behaviors within the classroom. Every teacher will use interventions, or differentiated instruction, with any student to help them succeed in the classroom—it's not just for children with disabilities. RTI is generally defined as a three step model of school supports that uses research-based academic and/or behavioral interventions.

There are many issues about progress monitoring in early childhood such a progress monitoring systems not being appropriate for the early childhood classroom, and the only focus of progress monitoring is on academic skills. This is an issue that is happening because people without early childhood education background are pushing down systems that work in the upper grades without taking into consideration the demographic that needs the interventions. This is something I have personally experienced in my own school. Since I teach at Pre-K-12 school, I am in a RTI team of elementary educators that don’t fully understand what is needed in the early childhood classroom. A few years ago I went looking for behavior intervention for a student and was suggested that I should sit down to complete a puzzle with him because it might make him enjoy school. It didn’t address how to address the target behavior and create a replacement behavior. Luckily, we live in the internet age where I was able to look up a researched based intervention for the boy’s behavior. RTI in the younger years are supposed to be a collaborative team effort, and it is an issue that teams are unable to work together to come with ideas for each student. I have colleagues at other schools report the same findings. The teams are not really digging deep in the child’s needs, but just skimming over the top the data to help thus not allowing an understanding of target behavior or the function behind it.

RTI stands for response to intervention. Response to intervention aims to identify a child who may be struggling early on. RTI also gives the student the support he or she needs to be successful in class. RTI consist of three tiers of instructional processes.