RTI

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                                                  UNDERSTANDING RTI 

Response to Intervention (RTI) is a tool that help educators assess, locate, and address issues that students are having in their classrooms. In the article (What Every School Leader Needs to Know About RTI), it depicts the system of RTI as a stool. These three legs are labeled as 1) Assessment, 2) Intervention, 3) Problem-solving Process (Figure 1.1). After conducting assessments, then you can apply three levels of intervention that are broken down based on the students need. The article also discusses how RTI is a proactive tool used by educators to stay ahead of students that need additional assistance. RTI can bring in multiple resources and experts that create plans for students that show early signs of delay and ensures that they are being helped while formal testing is being scheduled or is being considered by educators and parents. 




Additionally, when reading the article (Making the Most of Progress Monitoring) I learned that RTI and IEP's must be tracked for data points. These data points depict the growth or decreases in the child's ability to grow from their planned interventions. These interventions are applied by a team of experts who use ongoing assessing across multiple areas of subjects and class settings. This data will return information that educational leaders and teams can use to see the effectiveness of the targeted interventions. 

Although, there is a lot of intervention that are being assessed and implemented by the team across multiple subjects and classrooms, it is also important that there is a in-home plan being followed. When children can practice and work on goals outside of the school, it allows for goals to be met sooner. These are effective on long-term and short-term goals. If the teams has aspects that are not being followed through on, it will cause delays in the child’s ability to meet goals timely and increase the need for more formal testing and additional plans like I.E.P’s. 



In the article (The Why Behind RTI) it discusses asking the right question to do the right thing for your students. The article discussed that RTI should not be implemented to ensure that a school or district is checking a required box. Instead, it should be used to increase students’ skills to ensure that small delays don’t increase over the year.

When thinking through these articles, it has become clear to me that I need to do more research on RTI. I have always been aware of IEP’s but not RTI’s and what a RTI is. I believe I know enough now to ask questions around RTI to gain better insight. 





Reference:


Buffum, A., Weber, C., & Mattos, M. (2010, October). The why behind RTI - Great Schools Partnership. https://greatschoolspartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/The-Why-Behind-RTI.pdf. https://www.greatschoolspartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/The-Why-Behind-RTI.pdf


Cleaver, S. (2023, August 15). What is response to intervention (RTI)?. We Are Teachers. https://www.weareteachers.com/what-is-rti/


Keliher, P. (PK). (n.d.). 5 steps to creating an evaluation platform using the RTI field build kit. RTI. https://www.rti.com/blog/5-steps-to-creating-an-evaluation-platform-using-the-rti-field-build-kit

Oliver, B. (2009, August). The power of walk-throughs. https://justaskpublications.com/just-ask-resource-center/e-newsletters/just-for-the-asking/the-power-of-walk-throughs/

Searle, M. (n.d.). What Every School Leader Needs to Know About RTI. ASCD.


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