Week 4 Assignment 1

After I watched all tree video I gathered more information and knowledge about RTI, however the first video is the one I found better because I gathered more knowledge on how RTI is used and it explain the three tiers. Each tier targets students that every teacher has in the classroom and does not leave one out.

Tier 1 – Differentiated Instruction that uses evidence based core curriculum instruction. This level is given to all students and is effective to 80-85% of the students. The 15% of students who are not effective in this tier move on to tier 2.

Tier 2 - This tier builds on tier 1 using more strategic based intervention that helps students. As previously mention in tier 1 this group is about 15% of all students. These students work in small classroom groups with the teacher or a teacher’s assistant. The work that they work on is only a supplement of the core curriculum, so these students are getting additional help on top of the work given in tier 1. For example in tier 1 they work on 90 minutes of reading and in tier 1 they will receive an additional 30 minutes of RTI extension in a small group.  However there will still be 5% of students who need additional help in tier 2 that need to move to tier 3.

Tier 3 – Intensive evidence based instruction given to a very small group of students.  This can be provided to students one to one or a small group out side the class. A specialist or special Ed teacher can assist these students with directed instruction. A small portion of these students may need to go further and be required special Ed services.  As well students do not need to be disabled to require these tier services.

Questions:

Based on student’s observations and working with students they always ask why they have to do more of the same work they just did while they were pulled out. Just recently a child did 30 minutes of math with a one to one teacher, had to come back to the classroom to do more math problems and he didn’t want to. How would I keep this student engaged to do more?

For classes who do not have an additional teacher how can you keep your one to’ one of small group focus? I find this will be a challenge.