Response to Intervention (RTI)

 

       Response to Intervention (RTI) programs are put in place by some schools in the United States in order to provide a framework for assisting students who are falling behind academically or behaviorally without referring them immediately to special education.  RTI programs use student data to analyze any learning problems that students may have.

 

 

The Three Tiers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tier One: Preventative Classroom management

-High Student engagement

-Response cards

-Choral responding

-Peer tutoring

-Organizing

-Clear communication

-Ample background knowledge and skill instruction provided

-Established routines and procedures

-High expectations

-Teacher modeling of positive behaviors

-Positive student-teacher rapport

-Positively stated rules

-frequent academic assessment

 

Tier Two: First-Line Interventions

-Changes to academic instruction

-positive reinforcement system

-Token economy

-Behavior contracts

-Remedial intervention or tutoring support

-Contingency system

-Surface management techniques (planned ignoring, signal interference, proximity control, tension decontamination though humor, hurdle help, direct appeal, antiseptic bounce (i.e. time out), hypodermic affection, regrouping, restructuring, limitation of space and tools, permissions, authoritative verboten, rewards)

-Home-school note system

 

Tier Three: Intensive, Individualized Intervention

-Functional Behavioral Assessments

-Self-monitoring strategies

-Daily Student evaluation

-Social skills instruction

-Support Groups

-Goal setting/monitoring

-Crisis management or safety plan

-Counseling

 

 

***Information for this page was taken from our Educ340 Methods of Inclusion "A Three-Tiered Model of Classroom Behavioral Supports" (Sayeski and Brown) given to us by Dr. Bracke