Interventions and Strategies

ELISEO C. BUENAFE, PhD

Objectives
 You will know the difference between a strategy
and an intervention.
 You will walk away with at least one strategy and
one intervention to engage students.
A teacher has many roles and
responsibilities…

• Teacher’s efforts to oversee activities

such as learning, social interaction, and
student behavior”.
Is this a –strategy or an - intervention?

• Calling home when a

student has not turned
in homework
Is this a –strategy or an - intervention?

• Meeting with a student before or

after school to reinforce the
class concepts and monitor
student’s success.
 Is this a –strategy or an - intervention?
• Using a graphic organizer for two
students who have difficulty
understanding the main ideas of
a concept and monitoring their
progress.
 Is this a –strategy or an - intervention?

• Meeting with a student who has difficulty

participating in class because of anxiety,
and informing him of the question that will
be asked of him the next day so that he
has time to prepare.
Is this a –strategy or an - intervention?

• Students who score below 60%

on a math assessment have an
opportunity to learn missed
concepts through diagramming
the problems.
Is this a –strategy or an - intervention?

• Using physical movement for

the entire class to promote
engagement.
Is this a –strategy or an - intervention?

• Using a research-based method,

such as color-coded paper, to
help Andrew and Lindsay
understand written directions and
noting progress made.
What differences did you notice?
So, what is RTI?
What is RTI?

• Response to Intervention is a multi-tiered

approach to providing instruction and
targeted intervention to improve student
outcomes (Johnson, Smith, & Harris 2018)

• We use the RTI model to provide effective,

research- based instruction to help all
students (prevention).
What is RTI?
• Identify students who are not reaching
Enduring Understandings/ Essential
Outcomes.
• Implement research-based interventions
and monitor progress
What is RTI?
Strategies
– The combination of research-based methods
or activities designed to teach the learning
objective.
Interventions
– Program, actions, or strategies specifically
designed to address an identified deficiency
and monitored to ensure outcome
improvements.
(Taken from PLC Glossary (p.7))
What is RTI?
• An instructional strategy can become an
intervention when the strategy is intentionally
used and monitored to address students who are
not reaching the learning outcomes.

– Use mid-quarter, quarter, and semester grades

as a means to monitor and measure student
progress
Taken from PLC Glossary (p.7)
Two Rules of Teaching

1. Small changes can make a big

difference.
2. Small changes can make a big
difference.

Quin, 2016
Who Benefits from RTI?
• EVERYONE!

– Typically a few students in each class are directly

impacted by specific interventions that lead to
Essential Outcomes.

– All students will benefit from research-based

strategies/interventions implemented with whole
class.
 RTI at Work
Feedback from Erin Shook:
Pros: allows for thoughtful/engaged
discussion with other students,
breaks up monotony of students
taking notes in desks, since
everyone is up, moving, and
talking, it allows me to work with
students that need help
(intervention) without singling
them out, students are
reenergized
Cons: the biggest con I could
potentially see would be
behavior issues; however I’ve
never had problems with
activities like this—you just have
to tell them your expectations
up front, students could
potentially just copy from
someone else
Workshop
You have to come up with an intervention
and discuss how are you going to apply in
the class during pandemic.

(Per Department)

Choose 1 representative to discuss your

work.
 Final Thought
Intervention is the key to preventing behavioral issues in the
classroom…
• Interventions can be done by:
• -teachers
• -counselors
• -administrators
• -behavior interventionists

It requires incorporating many aspects of assistance in various

forms that work together in order to achieve success.
 Final Thought
It is critical that everyone involved in the intervention work
together and follow through on intervention plans…

• “This bundling of components presents challenges when

reviewing levels of evidence for each recommendation
because evidence of the impact of specific intervention
components on students’ behavior cannot formally be
attributed to one component of an intervention”.
• (Epstein, Atkins, Cullinan, Kutash, & Weaver, 2018)
Thank you for listening!