Assessments
Tiers of intervention
Professional Learming Communities
Essential Skills
Organizing for RTI
100
This type of assessment is given to all students to anticipate the additional support a student may need to be successful.
What is a universal screener?
100
This tier is considered core instruction, appropriate for all students. If core instruction is meeting the needs of students, then approximately 80% will need core only.
What is Tier 1?
100
This culture is developed when educators believe they are all responsible for ensuring high levels of learning for all children
What is collective responsibility?
100
This RTI question, which is part of the four questions developed by Rick DuFour, Becky DuFour and Bob Eaker, is determined for student needing support beyond core.
What is it we want our students to learn?
100
According to Gusky & Pigott (1988), this is the simple formula to ensure learning.
What is targeted instruction + time?
200
The results from this type of assessment are used to drive instruction.
What is a formative assessment?
200
This tier of intervention is considered the most intensive, And if core instruction is considered effective, this tier will only be needed for approximately 5% of students.
What is Tier 3?
200
These goals are results oriented, measurable, specific, timely, and attainable.
What is a SMART goal?
200
This criteria is used to determine if the essential standard provides knowledge and skills that are valuable beyond a single test date.
What is Endurance?
200
This type of community is organized for professionals to analyze data and determine interventions.
What is a Professional Learning Community?
300
This type of assessment is used to summarize and report out learning that has taken place over a designated period of time.
What is a summative assessment?
300
This tier is for students that need an extra dose of support beyond core instruction and accounts for 10-15 % of student when core instruction is successful.
What is Tier 2.
300
Teacher teams work together to ensure all students meet these skills, which are determined by the team.
What are essential skills?
300
This criteria is used to determine if an essential skill will provide students with knowledge and skills that are valuable in multiple disciplines.
What is Leverage?
300
Student should never be pulled out of this type of instruction to receive interventions because it can cause them to miss new learning.
What is core instruction?
400
These comprehensive assessments are common assessments, administered periodically throughout the year to provide information about student learning related to long term learning goals.
What is A benchmark assessment?
400
Interventions in these two tiers are typically led by collaborative teacher teams.
What are tiers 1 and 2?
400
A school would create this type of team to guide the change process and it should include people with influence, as well as expertise, and resistance.
What is a school leadership team?
400
This criteria is used to ensure essential skills provide students with knowledge and skills essential for success in the next grade or level of instruction.
What is Readiness?
400
This is essential in a schedule for teachers to meet in a PLC.
What is common planning time?
500
This assessment is an important part of an intervention plan, given every week or two to evaluate improvement.
What is progress monitoring?
500
Students in need of intensive remedial support in universal skills; reading, writing, number sense, English language, attendance and behavior.
What is Tier 3?
500
An ongoing process of collectively analyzing targeted evidence to determine the specific learning needs of each child and the effectiveness of the instruction the child receives in meeting these needs.
What is convergent assessment?
500
Reeves (2002) has offered a set of these three criteria to determine what is essential for students to know.
What is endurance, leverage and readiness?
500
These Interventions should be selected for RTI because they have been proven to be successful.
What are Research Based Interventions?