Ch. 6 Response to Intervention

What is RTI?
RTI is an integrated approach to service delivery that encompasses general, remedial, and special education through a multitiered service delivery model.

The Purpose!
RTI functions as a alternative for learning disability evaluations within the general evaluation requirements of IDEA 2004.
Also gives provisions when a student experiences difficulties, with the goal of improving the achievement of all students, including those who may have a learning disability.

Importance of RTI!
RTI is a process that provides immediate intervention to struggling students at the first indications of failure to learn.
Through screening of all students, teachers can identify those who are not mastering critical reading skills and provide differentiated intervention to small groups of students.

Core Principles of RTI

• Use all availiable resources to teach all students!
• Use scientific, researched-based intervention/instructions.
• Monitor classroom performance
• Conduct universal screening/ benchmarking.
• Use a multitier model of service delivery.
• Make date-based decisions.
• Monitor progress frequently.

RTI and the Assessment Process!
This process is one the needs to be determined so that special educators can determine how RTI effects making referrals fro special education services. RTI helps decide when there is a need for additional information about the child that can only be gathered through a comprehensive individual assessment obtained through the special education evaluation process.

Multitiered Service Delivery Model
This approach incorporates a multitiered model of educational service delivery in which each tier represents increasingly intense services that are associated with increasing levels of learner needs.
These various tiers provide a set of curricular/ instructional processes aimed at improving student response to instruction and student outcomes.

Tier I

• designed to meet the needs of a majority of the school pop. and has three critical elements:
• a research based core curriculum.
• short-cycle assessments for all students at least three times a year to determine their instructional needs.
• sustained professional development to equip teachers with tools necessary fro teaching content area effectively.

Tier II
This is for students who are falling behind same-age peers and need additional targeted interventions to meet grade-level expectations.
The goal is to accelerate learning for students who need more intensive support and typically takes place in a regular setting with small groups.

Tier III
This is designed for students who still have considerable difficulty in mastering necessary academic and/or behavioral skills, even after Tier I and II instruction and interventions.
This addresses the students needs through intensive individualized services. Students receive intensive and highly more focused intentional research-based instruction, possibly over a long period of time.

I would implement the importance of RTI for my future students, based on the idea that I want to help my future students succeed and use RTI in case I possibly observe any difficulties my students may have in the curriculum.