What is the Intervention Team?
The Intervention Team problem solves and devises strategies to help children benefit from their learning experience. Parents are invited and encouraged to attend and be a part of the team process. We may ask you to share additional information about your child as well as your perceptions of his or her strengths and areas of need. Also, we may ask for your support in implementing some of the interventions at home.
The Intervention Team Meetings are facilitated by the Elementary School Counselor. You will receive written notification for the initial meeting, and your child's teacher will contact you with reminders regarding any additional or follow-up meetings. Please read below for additional information.
What is the purpose of Intervention Team?
Who is included on the Intervention Team?
The intervention team is a multidisciplinary team consisting of relevant professionals who know the child/family and/or are capable of providing useful input and suggestions for interventions and strategies that would be helpful for the various areas of concern. All of the following people are regularly invited to be part of the Intervention Team Meetings: School Counselor, Teacher, Principal, Assistant Principal, Literacy/Math Facilitator, child’s caregiver(s). Other staff may also be included if they are able to assist with specific strategies (ex, School Psychologist, School Nurse, ESL teacher, Speech-Language Pathologist, etc.).
What happens at an Intervention Team meeting?
Multiple Intervention Types
The Mecca of interventions for everything from behavior and classroom management to academic strategies.
One of the most useful and informative websites around. Not only good for teachers, but for everyone interested in educating students and helping those students who don't get a particular subject learn it. Includes NUMEROUS links that are constantly checked and updated to FREE resources, materials, and online activities and games to help build skills in the area you're interested in for the grade levels you want. Organized by K-12, subject area, and even specific standards.
Evidence Based Practice Manual
This manual is a class project at East Carolina University's School Psychology Program and contains specific information on how to implement research-based academic and behavioral interventions.
Cogitive Strategy Instruction-UNL
This site contains empirically-based cognitive strategies to help be more aware of cognition during learning and learn to be better problem-solvers.
NICHY Research to Practice Database
A collection of evidence based practice articles for reading, writing, math, behavior, and more.
From the website: "Welcome to the Center on Instruction, your gateway to a cutting-edge collection of scientifically based research and information on K-12 instruction in reading, math, science, special education, and English language learning. Part of the Comprehensive Center network, the Center on Instruction is one of five content centers serving as resources for the 16 regional U.S. Department of Education Comprehensive Centers."
US Government website designed to make it easy to find evidence-based practices for educators at all levels.
A central and trusted clearinghouse for scientifically based research on what works in education.
New Horizon's Teaching and Learning Strategies
From the website: "In this area of the website you will find information on some of the best researched and the most widely implemented methods of helping all students to learn more successfully. The information includes a description of how the teaching and learning strategies work, where they have been applied, results, and where to find further information from experts in the field, books, websites, and other resources."
Scientifically Proven Practices
A collection of research-based interventions by various areas.
From reading, writing, and math to social studies and science, PBS teachers has numerous exciting and engaging strategies to effectively teach students imprortant concepts. PK-12.
Reading Interventions
The Florida Center for Reading Research
A FANTASTIC website for all areas of reading. Under teacher resources, there are hundreds of EBIs to download for FREE located in the Student Activities section and divided by the Big 5 Areas of reading and elementary grade levels. Also, in the reports area provides information on hundres of packaged EBI products.
Similar to the FCRR website, only the Texas version. Link takes you directly to their free materials download page that includes professional development, intervention strategies, and lesson plans.
MSU Reading Interventions for Comprehension
Simple handouts you can download to intervene with reading comprehension strategies.
Provides free materials, lesson plans, student materials, and other resources for teaching language, vocabulary, and comprehension. Also addresses writing and early reading interventions.
Free Reading is an open-source FREE reading intervention program for grades K-3.
Reading Rockets offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. Professionals can also download toolkits to help them become more involved in understanding evidence-based reading interventions for struggling readers.
School-Home Links Reading Kits
Free kit offers four hundred activities for strengthening children's reading and writing skills (one kit for each grade level, kindergarten through 3rd grade).
A website that links uses to reading interventions for various Big 5 areas of reading and the research that makes them EBIs.
Cognitive Framework for Learning to Read
Describes the cognitive framework needed to read and use language, lists assessment techniques for each area, and then provides intervention activities to address those areas. Very good website!
Big Ideas in Beginning Reading
For information, research, assessment techniques, and intervention ideas on all Big 5 areas of reading created by the University of Oregon (the same place that invented DIBELS and other free assessment tools).
Site for teaching reading and integrating reading instruction into all content areas.
Reader's Theater Overview and Information
Even More Reader's Theater Ideas
Learn about Reader's Theater, pick scripts, and get the intervention going with these websites!
Online course you can register to take for free as a non-credit course. Goes over phonics instruction, intervention, and assessment. Very useful modules with module 6 being one of the most useful for the education profession.
From Mosaic thought to other evidence-based strategies, this site gives a good overview of the strategies most effective in teaching children to read with understanding.
Reading Strategies Overview-9 Big Ideas
9 Reading strategies to provide children ways to understand reading and also answer test questions for reading. Although this site is designed for 4th graders, the strategies and activities within them can easily be adapted for students at other grade levels.
Vocabulary project engages children in hands-on language learning. Includes free downloads and podcasts!
Awesome list of resources divided by subject to help children learn and get excited about reading.
Writing Interventions
Written expression interventions
Once again another simple website with interventions to try and explanations for why students have written expression difficulties from MSU.
Math Interventions
This website not only has some research based stragies for math, but also includes some great presentations that outline more specific RBI ideas.
A terrific intervention site put together by a grant from the Virginia Department of Education. This is an interactive website designed for teachers to help them implement research-proven strategies and interventions for students struggling with math concepts. Lessons and strategies also include tips for scaffolding as the student masters the concept. This site is multi-sensory for teaching the teachers and includes lesson plans and video, visual, and audio examples of the various technqies in action. You can also download useful handouts to explain the scenarios as well.
Resources for teaching and understanding math concepts.
The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
From website: The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) is an NSF supported project that began in 1999 to develop a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K-12 emphasis). The project includes dissemination and extensive internal and external evaluation.
Just a few handouts of interventions to try to intervene with various math skills.
Links to over 100 excellent federal agency sites for teaching math.
On March 13, 2008, the National Mathematics Advisory Panel presented Foundations for Success: The Final Report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel to the President of the United States and the Secretary of Education. Copies of these reports can be accessed at this website.
Behavior Interventions
Similar to the WhatWorks Clearinghouse, Promising Practices contains information about practices and programs to help with behavioral and emotional skill development.
FLPBS Individual Intervention Resources
This is the Florida Center for Positive Behavior Support. The link will take you directly to the individual resources page which includes numerous downloads to help you effectively intervene with individual students. Information on PBS practices at various levels can also be found here by clicking on the links at the top of the page.
Free printable behavior charts
From chore charts to classroom behavior charts, this website can help you design a simply behavior chart for any child. It also has some great features that can integrate the child's interests (cartoons, games, etc) and/or uploaded photos of your choice into the chart to make it more personalized for the child.
The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
This site contains programs that are considered effective for violence prevention.
Guide to Effective Programs for Children and Youth
This site contains information about practices and programs to help with behavioral and emotional skill development.
ESL Interventions
Bilingual website for professionals and families featuring handouts, lesson plans, and techniques for improving reading and parent-student involvement in school for ESL students and their families.
Teaching Literacy in English to K-5 English Learners
This site provides videos, slideshows, and tools for teaching reading to K-5 English learners. The site is based on five research-based recommendations: screen and monitor students' progress; provide small-group reading interventions; provide vocabulary instruction throughout the day; develop academic English competence beginning in primary grades; and schedule regular peer-assisted learning opportunities, including structured language practice. (Department of Education)
Links to sites to practice and learn math concepts in French, Spanish, and German.
Other
The CLAS institute specializes in interventions that are culturally and linguistically appropriate for students with various disabilities, languages spoken, cultural backgrounds. Parts of the website are available in multiple languages.
The U.S. Department of Education has launched "U.S.A. Learns," a FREE Web site to help immigrants learn English. Users can click on directions in either English or Spanish and choose which English level they need—beginner, low-intermediate or intermediate. Instruction in the modules is almost exclusively in English (so parents who DON'T speak Spanish can use it too!)