ASI stands for Academic Support Instruction. The roles and responsibilities of an ASI teacher are: The goal of the Academic Support Instruction (ASI) program is to provide students (and teachers) with an additional teacher resource who acts as an intervention specialist for students displaying academic difficulty in math and/or language arts literacy.
ASI teachers are knowledgeable about the general education curriculum, skillful at anticipating student difficulties with learning tasks, and adept at working with the general education teacher to provide ongoing differentiation, adaptation, and modification of the general education curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
In grades K-5, the ASI teachers work collaboratively with the classroom teacher within the classroom setting as both in-class support and providing small group individual sessions for students who are identified for more intensive work on particular skills. Multiple measures are used to identify and qualifying criteria is established to enroll students.