Response To Intervention (RTI)

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Response to intervention (RTI) is a three-tiered approach for both learning and behavioral needs. This process is for early identification and support. RTI benefits children who may be falling behind in their academics for various reasons. The teachers teach the children with high quality instruction and interventions that match the child’s needs. The teacher gathers and monitors the child on a daily basis, seeing how they are gathering information, how the child processes, and how they apply data. After observing the child a teacher then needs to make changes or set new goals for children that are not progressing like they should be.
The primary goals of an RTI are improving academic and behavioral outcomes for all students. There is also a secondary goal for RTI, which is to provide data for identifications of learning disorders. RTI wasn’t always used in this decision, but now that it is part of it, it …show more content…

In the academic systems Tier 1 is the core instructional- interventions, this includes all students, it is preventive, and proactive. Tier 2 is targeted group interventions, which is only for some students rather then all of them, it is high efficiency, and a more rapid response. Then there is tier 3, which is intensive, individual interventions, which is for individual students, it is assessment-based, high intensity, and it is for a much longer duration. On the other hand and very similarly are the behavior systems, which also has three tiers. Tier 1 is also the core instruction interventions, which is all students in all settings, preventive, and proactive. Tier 2 is for targeted group interventions, which is for only some students (at-risk), high efficiency, and rapid response. Then lastly tier 3, intensive, individual interventions, this is only for individual students, assessment-based, intense, and durable procedures. Both systems are very, very similar with their 3