Response to Intervention

Response to Intervention (RTI) is a framework of academic intervention used in the United States designed to provide early, effective assistance to children who are having difficulty learning. RTI seeks to prevent academic failure through early intervention, frequent progress measurement, and increasingly intensive research-based instructional interventions for children who have difficulty.

The heart of any RTI model lies in the use of tiered instruction. In the RTI framework, the instruction delivered to students varies on several dimensions that are related to the nature and severity of a student's difficulities.

TIER 1

All students in Tier 1 receive high-quality core instruction within the classroom, differentiated to meet their needs, and are screened on a periodic basis to identify struggling learners who need additional support.

TIER 2

In Tier 2, students not making adequate progress in the core curriculum are provided with increasingly intensive instruction matched to their needs on the basis of levels of performance and rate of progress.

TIER 3

At the Tier 3 level, students receive more individualized, intensive interventions that target their skill deficits for the remediation of existing problems and the prevention of more severe problems.

Visit the following site for more information:

National Center on Response to Intervention