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Response to Intervention

(RTI)
By: Alex Widawski

What is RTI?

Practice of providing high quality instruction and interventions matched to


student need, (while) monitoring progress frequently to make decisions about
changes in instruction or goals, and applying student response data to
important educational decisions.

Levels of Intervention

Key Elements of RTI

Universal screening of academics and behavior

High-quality research based instruction

Implementation of appropriate research-based instruction

Student assessment with a classroom focus

Continuous progress monitoring during interventions

Teaching with fidelity

What can RTI do?

Can implement small groups and 1 to 1

Help refer a student for special education

Reduce overidentification

Influence instruction

Show progress

Collaboration with RTI

occurs when 2 or more professionals who


share expertise in order to implement
instructional or behavioral strategies to
benefit student learning

Collaboration

5 steps:

1) collect and assess ongoing data

2) analyze strengths and challenges to determine root causes.

what have you observed?

By asking questions like;

What information does the data provide?

What are the strengths, challenges, inferences?

What is the root cause?

Collaboration continued

3) establish smart goals set, review, and revise them

Attainable/achievable

Specific
Measurable

5 steps:

Relevant

Timely/Time specific

4) select scientifically research based interventions

5) progress monitor planned before, during, and after interventions

Clark, James P., and Michelle Alvarez. Response to


Intervention: A Guide for School Social Workers. New
York: Oxford UP, 2010. Print.

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