Name that Model
One teacher leads the lesson while the other moves throughout the classroom and provides brief support to individual students.
What is One Teach, One Assist?
During science, students rotate among a teacher-led experiment, a vocabulary activity led by the second teacher, and an independent data-analysis task.
What is Station Teaching?
Two teachers enter class without deciding who will introduce the lesson, provide supports, or lead each activity. This is the most immediate issue they need to address.
What are clearly defined roles and responsibilities?
This level includes high-quality core instruction and universal supports provided to all students.
What is Tier 1?
Nearly half of the students in a class score below the expected benchmark. Before assigning individual interventions, the team should examine this.
What is the quality and effectiveness of Tier 1 instruction?
One teacher provides instruction while the other collects planned data about participation, behavior, understanding, prompting, or another area of interest.
What is One Teach, One Observe?
One teacher leads a whole-class lesson while the other uses a checklist to record how often selected students respond independently rather than after prompting.
What is One Teach, One Observe?
Students consistently describe one adult as “the teacher” and the other as “the helper.” This important feature of an effective co-teaching relationship may be missing.
What is parity or shared ownership?
This brief assessment is administered broadly to identify students who may be at risk and need additional support.
What is universal screening?
A student continues to struggle despite effective Tier 1 instruction and needs additional targeted instruction. This is the most appropriate next step.
What is adding Tier 2 support while continuing Tier 1?
The class is divided into two approximately equal groups, and each teacher provides instruction addressing the same learning objective.
What is Parallel Teaching
Before a new algebra unit, one teacher reviews prerequisite fraction skills with five students while the other begins the opening activity with the rest of the class.
What is Alternative Teaching
A team uses One Teach, One Assist every day, and the same person always assists. This is the most appropriate change for the team to make.
What is rotating responsibilities and selecting different models based on the lesson’s purpose?
This involves collecting comparable student-performance data repeatedly to determine whether performance is improving over time.
What is progress monitoring?
A student receiving Tier 2 support meets the intervention goal for four consecutive weeks. The team should now do this rather than immediately removing every support.
What is maintain the support briefly or gradually fade it while continuing to monitor progress?
Students rotate among different learning locations. Each teacher leads part of the instruction, and another location may involve independent or collaborative work.
What is Station Teaching?
Two English teachers divide the class into two similarly sized groups and facilitate the same discussion using the same questions.
What is Parallel Teaching?
Two co-teachers disagree about how to provide a student’s testing accommodation. This should be their first response
What is discussing the concern privately, reviewing the student’s plan and needs, and agreeing on a consistent approach?
Before concluding that an intervention was ineffective, a team should examine whether it was delivered with this.
What is implementation fidelity?
A student makes little progress, but the planned intervention occurred during only 55% of the scheduled sessions. This should happen before the team moves the student to a more intensive tier.
What is correct the implementation problem and collect additional data?
One teacher works with most of the class while the other provides targeted instruction to a smaller group for preteaching, reteaching, enrichment, or assessment.
What is Alternative Teaching?
During a history lesson, both teachers take active roles in a simulated debate. They respond to one another, ask students questions, and jointly guide the whole-class discussion.
What is Team Teaching?
The general education teacher plans and teaches every lesson, while the special education teacher works only with students who have IEPs. Identify two changes that would create a stronger partnership.
What are sharing planning and instructional responsibilities, and making both teachers responsible for all students? (answers involving parity, role rotation, communication, or varied models also will be accepted).
A student receives Tier 1 support in behavior, Tier 2 support in reading, and Tier 3 support in mathematics. This illustrates an important principle about MTSS tiers.
What is that tiers represent the intensity of support in a particular area, not permanent labels placed on students?
A student receives a well-matched tier 2 intervention consistently for eight weeks with 96% fidelity, but the progress-monitoring data remain mostly flat. This is the most reasonable next step.
What is intensify or individualize the intervention, potentially through Tier 3, while continuing to monitor progress?