What is Response to Intervention or RTI?

According to the National Center on Response to Intervention, RTI is a document that provides resources and supplemental support to all students in a public school setting to ensure success. Typically, the document has four components:




1. A school-wide, multi-level instructional and behavioral system for preventing school failure;

2. Screening;

3. Progress Monitoring;

4. Data based decision making for instruction, movement within the multi-level system, and disability identification (in accordance with state law). (National, 2011)



Typically, when students are experiencing some type of difficulty with the general education curriculum, the educators meet on a weekly basis to discuss strategies and support systems that will help the student overcome these challenges. Some ideas that may be implemented may be teaching strategies, instructional tools, or a differentiated curriculum geared towards the particular student.

Most if not all of the students fall within the Tier 1 range meaning that all of the students receive some type of support for the general education curriculum. When a student begins to experience an increasing amount of difficulty with the present level of accommodations that have been given to them, they move up the different tiers as their needs dictate The more challenges the student has, the higher the tier level is. During this time frame, information is being gathered on the students to help explain what strategies are effective and which are not. At the end of the process, a student continues to be on the tiered system or is referred to the School Psychologist where they are given a Psychoeducational Evaluation.

For more information on RTI or the Response to Intervention Process, feel free to visit http://www.rti4success.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1.

REFERENCE:


Safer, Nancy, 2010 (2010) Definition of RTI. National Center of Response to Intervention Retrieved from www.rti4success.org on January 15, 2011

National Center on Response to Intervention

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