Week 4 Assignment #1 Understanding RTI

I believe that Response to Intervention (RTI) is important because all children can learn. However, the thing that is evident; is that  at-risk students may need more access to learning opportunities that are finely attuned to their individual needs than on grade or above grade students. To me RTI can address these issues because it is about providing immediate benefits to the student by combining assessment and intervention. The assessment data are used to decide what the intervention will be as well as determine its effectiveness. It starts with General instruction /Tier 1 intervention where everyone receives the same high quality instruction, if students do not respond to this and still exhibits signs of deficiencies, then they are referred to small group instruction/ scientifically based strategies/Tier 2 intervention where more highly trained teachers and resource person provide additional help to them. If tier 2 doesn’t help then a more deeper solution may need to be sought after, parents maybe called in for meeting, testing may be done and then students may be referred for special education services (Tier 3). This model make plenty of sense to me because assessment doesn’t drive the curriculum, but the achievement of students goals are the deciding factor.

In this model the teacher usually starts off with a Narrative text which is either read orally or silently by the student. The teacher will then a lot a time frame for reading to be completed, while student reads the teacher records miscues (omissions, substitutions and insertions). After reading the teacher will ask for a retell of the story and some comprehension question.In a nutshell, RTI is simply a proactive data-driven decision making tool to help struggling students.