Critical Components of RtI
A type of assessment that identifies students who may be academically at risk. These assessments are administered to all students and take place more than once per year.
What are: Universal Screeners?
MTSS stands for
What is Multi-Tier Systems of Support?
Assigned teachers should do this after collecting data so the RtI team can analyze it effectively.
What is: Graph the data?
The core instructional program provided to all students by the general education teacher in the general education classroom. The instruction should meet the needs of 80% of all students. The instruction should be differentiated to meet the needs of various types of learners.
What is Tier 1?
Something you should always bring to RtI meetings in order to make decisions about students. If the responsible party does not bring it, valuable time is wasted and the student must be rescheduled. This is especially true when the RtI calendar of students is full.
What is: Progress-monitoring data? (Should be graphed also)
This type of assessment is used to monitor students’ academic performance, to quantify a student rate of improvement or responsiveness to instruction, and to evaluate the effectiveness of intervention. It provides routine data that display student growth over time to determine if the student is progressing as expected.
What is: Progress Monitoring?
When teachers use student assessment data and knowledge of student readiness, learning preferences, language and culture to offer students in the same class different teaching and learning strategies to address their needs. This type of instruction can involve mixed instructional groupings, team teaching, peer tutoring, learning centers, and accommodations to ensure that all students have access to the instructional program. This type of instruction is NOT the same as providing research-based intensive interventions to students with learning or behavioral problems.
What is: Differentiation?
Basic Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Math Calculation, Math Reasoning, Numeracy, Written Expression
What are: Areas of potential academic intervention?
Small group (max of 6), Not making adequate progress in core curriculum, Targeting 1-2 skills
What is Tier 2 instruction?
This occurs at all tiers of RtI. Rather than using emotion, seniority or seasoned teacher status, good judgement or gut feelings, problem-solving teams utilize this in order to guide decisions.
What is: Data-Based Decision Making
An instructional technique in which the teacher breaks a complex task into smaller tasks, models the desired learning strategy or task, provides support as students learn the task, and then gradually shifts responsibility to the students. In this manner, a teacher enables students to accomplish as much of a task as possible without assistance.
What is: Scaffolding?
This type of assessment compares a student’s performance to the performance of their same age peers.
What is: Norm-Referenced Assessment?
Intensive interventions, maximum of three students, basic skills
What is Tier 3 instruction?
Name ONE website that provides scripted, research-based interventions for academics and behavior as well as a host of other resources and tools for teachers to implement RtI effectively.
What is: www.interventioncentral.org or www.PBISworld.com
Implementing research-based interventions consistently and accurately as outlined in the intervention plan. This term means, "Doing what you say you are going to do."
What is: Fidelity?
Delays in learning, skills gaps
What are learning deficits?
Multiple activities targeting 1-2 deficit skills. Not pencil/paper based. Guided and documented by the teacher.
What is an intervention lesson?
What is flexible grouping?
What is RtI process?
This type of system includes three levels of intensity or prevention. The primary prevention level includes high quality core instruction. The secondary level includes evidence-based intervention(s) of moderate intensity. The tertiary prevention level includes individualized intervention(s) of increased intensity for students who show minimal response to secondary prevention. RtI, PBIS, attendance, and other support frameworks can fall within this umbrella type of system.
What is: a Multi-Tier System of Supports?
Instructional practices that demonstrate high learning rates and improved academic performance for MOST students. These practices employ systematic, empirical methods that draw on observation or experiment, involves rigorous data analyses that are adequate to test the stated hypotheses and justify the general conclusions, relies on measurements or observation methods that provide valid data across evaluators and observers and across multiple measurements and observations and has been accepted by a peer-reviewed journal or approved by a panel of independent experts through a comparatively rigorous, objective and scientific review. In other words, the interventions provided have evidence of effectiveness for the student population used.
What is Scientific-Based or Research-Based or Evidence-Based Intervention (They are not EXACTLY the same).
This type of assessment measures what a student understands, knows, or can accomplish in relation to a specific performance objective. It is typically used to identify a student’s specific strengths and weaknesses in relation to an age or grade level standard. It does not compare students to other students.
What is: Criterion-Referenced Assessment
A student who is retained repeats which tier of instruction?
Stemscopes, Think Tanks, Reading with Accountability, Choice Boards, etc. are examples of...
What is, "What the other learners are doing?"