Spectrum K12 Blog - November 2008 Archive
Posted by Beth DuBose on Nov 13, 2008
After a discussion in our webinar yesterday, I wanted to gather some information about Tiered instruction and how interventions are not supposed to replace the core instruction, but to supplement it. Atlas Initiative has a video on YouTube describing a 3 tiered model of intervention, and what is typically found at each of those three levels. In their explanation, they enforce that if a child is getting small group instruction in Tier 2, they should still be getting the core instruction from Tier 1 as well. Their example shows the student receiving 90 minutes of core reading instruction in Tier 1 with an additional 30 minute small group intervention for Tier 2.
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Posted by Beth DuBose on Nov 10, 2008
Twice a year, Teacher Magazine publishes the Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook. This sourcebook provides educators with insights and models for effective teaching. The Fall 2008 issue is titled Different Students, Different Approaches: The power of differentiated instruction. With Response to Intervention becoming a strong educational model across the nation, differentiated instruction and how to provide differentiated instruction is more crucial to teachers and schools.
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Posted by Beth DuBose on Nov 04, 2008
The RTI Action Network has posted a video to YouTube about implementing an RTI model at the secondary level. The video is an interview with Jay Engeln, a high school principal implementing RTI at his school. Mr. Engeln goes though the challenges that high schools will face when trying to implement RTI. He sees the biggest challenge as getting everyone past the idea that they are trying to implement an elementary program at the high school level.
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