Response to Intervention

A General Education Initiative  

What is Response to Intervention (RtI)?

  There are three essential components:

ü  Providing high quality, research-based instruction or intervention matched to individual student needs.

ü  Using data regarding learning rate over time and level or performance.

ü  Making educational decisions based upon each student's response to instruction or intervention.

Why should we use Response to Intervention (RtI)?

ü  It allows special and general educators to collaborate in order to educate all students.

ü  It identifies struggling learners early in the educational process.

ü  It requires data-driven educational decision making for all learners.

What does RtI look like?

Tier 1 - General Classroom Instruction

ü  District curriculum that is scientifically research-based and aligned to Illinois standards.

ü  Curriculum-based measures and assessments for screening, diagnostic and continuous progress monitoring.

ü  Differentiated instruction designed to meet the broad range of student needs

Tier 2 - Intervention

ü  Individualized intervention plan

ü  Core curriculum in classroom

ü  Supplemental interventions in the small group either within or outside the general classroom.

ü  Interventions targeted to remediate specific skills

ü  Intervention implemented within a set time frame with progress monitoring and tied to individual intervention plan.

Tier 3 - Intensive intervention - Very few students receive

ü  Individualized intervention plan

ü  Integrated instruction from all three tiers to increase accumulated impact

ü  Interventions delivered to very small groups (2-3), or individual students.

Click on the link below to view an informative PowerPoint presentation on the steps to getting services for your child when Tier II and III are unsuccessful.