RTI2 — Response to Instruction and Intervention:
Implementing Successful Academic and Behavioral Intervention Systems
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Response to instruction and intervention (RTI2) involves evaluating the degree to which students (a) master academic material in response to effective instruction, and (b) demonstrate appropriate, prosocial behavior in response to effective classroom management. When students are not progressing or "responding" to effective instructional conditions, academically or behaviorally, RTI2 uses a data-based, functional assessment, problem-solving process to determine the reason(s) for the lack of success and select strategic instruction/ interventions to help those students progress and be successful. RTI2 combines response-to-intervention with response-to-instruction in recognition that some students need modified or more intensive instruction in order to be academically or behaviorally successful, while other students need targeted, strategic, or intensive intervention(s) in order to facilitate their success. The kit presents an integrated evidence-based blueprint that guides effective classroom instruction and behavior management. The blueprint includes academic and behavioral service and support "cascades" to ensure that at-risk, underachieving, or unsuccessful students receive the services needed. The chapters and their authors are as follows:
Forms and instructions are also on the CD. A DVD presentation, recorded at the 2010 Model Schools Conference, explains the RTI2 approach. Written by two national experts in the field, the kit describes the critical components that help education leaders to implement effective RTI2 systems and approaches at the school and district levels. Focused on students with both academic and behavioral difficulties, the kit provides step-by-step implementation guides and procedures, and discusses how to link assessments that explain why students are not succeeding to more strategic or intensive academic or behavioral instruction or intervention. Howie Knoff already had an RTI2 approach in place and working in Arkansas. We have adapted his material. Cheryl Dyer is a long-time consultant who knows the International Center well and oversees her district's RTI program. RTI2 is not a particular program, curriculum, or model. It is a framework, or blueprint, for allocating instructional and behavioral services and supports aligned to a student's individual needs. The ultimate goal is to provide early, effective services at the level of intensity necessary for students maximize their academic and behavioral potential and proficiency. The RTI2 process proceeds through a flexible three-tiered system that represents the intensity of the supports needed by students to be successful. They are not labels that describe students or places to send students. The emphasis is on delivering the instruction or intervention through consultative support to general education teachers. The primary prevention in RTI occurs in Tier 1, which means in the general education classroom. |  |
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Included is a CD with forms and tools for implementing the process and a DVD presentation by Dr. Howard M. Knoff. #K-10-RTI $295 Excerpt Online Store |
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