SCHEDULING

Creating consistent time throughout the school day to intervene at the student and small-group level to meet the needs of intervention for students can be tricky. Here are four considerations to bear in mind when creating your intervention schedule:

• Avoid conflicting with core, other content, and recreational periods. Intervention time should stand alone and be represented as a separate slot of time within the master schedule.

• Ensure 50-60 minutes of core instruction, of which 10 minutes is devoted to differentiated computational fluency practice.

• Ensure that intervention time is sufficient to accommodate the recommendations of the chosen curriculum. If you have not chosen a curriculum, plan for approximately 30 minutes at least four days per week.

• If math time must be split, consider splitting the core time into more than one section of time prior to chunking intervention time.