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Response to Intervention (RtI):
If you look inside any classroom, chances are good that you’d see different students struggling for different reasons. It’s often hard for a teacher to tell right away which students are struggling or why. RTI aims to identify struggling students early on and give them the support they need to be successful in school.
The word intervention is key to understanding what RTI is all about. The goal is for the school to intervene, or step in, and start helping before anyone falls really far behind. RTI isn’t a specific program or type of teaching. It’s a proactive approach to measuring students’ skills and using this data to decide which types of targeted teaching to use.
The RTI process begins with your child’s teacher assessing the skills of everyone in the class. These assessments help the school’s RTI team tell which students need instructional interventions. That’s the term for focusing on specific skills in an effort to improve them.
Interventions can be part of classroom-wide instruction. The teacher may break students into small groups tailored for different skill levels or learning styles. This is also known as differentiated instruction. Students who don’t make enough progress getting this kind of help during class may start to work on skills in small groups that meet during enrichment activities like music or art.
As part of the RTI process, schools help struggling students by using teaching interventions that researchers have studied and shown to be effective.
What is the difference between RtI and MTSS?
RtI is a framework that many schools use to help students who are struggling with academics. There are three levels, or "tiers", of intervention in RTI.
Most students can make progress in the first level, which uses high-quality instruction to help kids catch up. Students who need more intensive help can get it in the second and third "tiers" of RTI.
A multi-tier system of supports (MTSS) is more comprehensive. It may include the three levels of RtI. But MTSS goes beyond just academics. It also covers social and emotional supports. That means it can include behavior intervention plans.
MTSS covers the adults at school, too. It includes things like professional development for teachers. MTSS also focuses on creating ways for adults to team up to help struggling kids.
The students at Bellew are formally assessed 3 times per year; September, January, and May. They are given tests that measure decoding and encoding skills, fluency, and comprehension. Students are also progress monitored in between these formal assessment times to make sure they are progressing or to modify intervention groups as needed
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