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The Key Role of the Classroom Teacher in RTI at Middle and High Schools
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Workshop PPTs and Handouts Available at:
• http://www.jimwrightonline.com/CFIHS.php
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Workshop Agenda
1. Key Concepts About RTI at the Secondary Level
2. The Classroom Teacher as Interventionist: 6 Steps
3. Tier 1 Intervention: Case Example
4. Review of Selected Web Resources to Help With Classroom Intervention, Assessment
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School Instructional Time: The Irreplaceable Resource
“In the average school system, there are 330 minutes in the instructional day, 1,650 minutes in the instructional week, and 56,700 minutes in the instructional year. Except in unusual circumstances, these are the only minutes we have to provide effective services for students. The number of years we have to apply these minutes is fixed. Therefore, each minute counts and schools cannot afford to support inefficient models of service delivery.” p. 177
Source: Batsche, G. M., Castillo, J. M., Dixon, D. N., & Forde, S. (2008). Best practices in problem analysis. In A. Thomas & J. Grimes (Eds.), Best practices in school psychology V (pp. 177-193).
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Secondary Students: Unique Challenges…
Struggling learners in middle and high school may:• Have significant deficits in basic academic skills• Lack higher-level problem-solving strategies and
concepts• Present with issues of school motivation• Show social/emotional concerns that interfere with
academics• Have difficulty with attendance• Are often in a process of disengaging from learning
even as adults in school expect that those students will move toward being ‘self-managing’ learners…
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School Dropout as a Process, Not an Event
“It is increasingly accepted that dropout is best conceptualized as a long-term process, not an instantaneous event; however, most interventions are administered at a middle or high school level after problems are severe.”
Source: Jimerson, S., Reschly, A.L., & Hess, R. (2008). Best practices in increasing the likelihood of school completion. In A. Thomas & J. Grimes (Eds). Best Practices in School Psychology - 5th Ed (pp. 1085-1097). Bethesda, MD: National Association of School Psychologists.. p.1090
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Student Motivation & The Need for Intervention“A common response to students who struggle in sixth grade is to wait and hope they grow out of it or adapt, to attribute early struggles to the natural commotion of early adolescence and to temporary difficulties in adapting to new organizational structures of schooling, more challenging curricula and assessment, and less personalized attention. Our evidence clearly indicates that, at least in high-poverty urban schools, sixth graders who are missing 20% or more of the days, exhibiting poor behavior, or failing math or English do not recover. On the contrary, they drop out. This says that early intervention is not only productive but absolutely essential.”
Source: Balfanz, R., Herzog, L., MacIver, D. J. (2007). Preventing student disengagement and keeping students on the graduation path in urban middle grades schools: Early identification and effective interventions. Educational Psychologist,42, 223–235. .
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Mining Archival Data: What Are the ‘Early Warning Flags’ of Student Drop-Out?
A sample of 13,000 students in Philadelphia were tracked for 8 years. These early warning indicators were found to predict student drop-out in the sixth-grade year:
• Failure in English• Failure in math• Missing at least 20% of school days• Receiving an ‘unsatisfactory’ behavior rating from at least one
teacher
Source: Balfanz, R., Herzog, L., MacIver, D. J. (2007). Preventing student disengagement and keeping students on the graduation path in urban middle grades schools: Early identification and effective interventions. Educational Psychologist,42, 223–235. .
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What is the Predictive Power of These Early Warning Flags?
Source: Balfanz, R., Herzog, L., MacIver, D. J. (2007). Preventing student disengagement and keeping students on the graduation path in urban middle grades schools: Early identification and effective interventions. Educational Psychologist,42, 223–235. .
Number of ‘Early Warning Flags’ in Student Record
Probability That Student Would Graduate
None 56%
1 36%
2 21%
3 13%
4 7%
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Five Core Components of RTI Service Delivery
1. Student services are arranged in a multi-tier model 2. Data are collected to assess student baseline levels
and to make decisions about student progress 3. Interventions are ‘evidence-based’4. The ‘procedural integrity’ of interventions is measured5. RTI is implemented and developed at the school- and
district-level to be scalable and sustainable over time
Source: Glover, T. A., & DiPerna, J. C. (2007). Service delivery for response to intervention: Core components and directions for future research. School Psychology Review, 36, 526-540.
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The Purpose of RTI in Secondary Schools: What Students Should It Serve?
Early Identification. As students begin to show need for academic support, the RTI model proactively supports them with early interventions to close the skill or performance gap with peers.
Chronically At-Risk. Students whose school performance is marginal across school years but who do not qualify for special education services are identified by the RTI Team and provided with ongoing intervention support.
Special Education. Students who fail to respond to scientifically valid general-education interventions implemented with integrity are classified as ‘non-responders’ and found eligible for special education.
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RTI ‘Pyramid of Interventions’
Tier 1
Tier 2
Tier 3
Tier 1: Universal interventions. Available to all students in a classroom or school. Can consist of whole-group or individual strategies or supports.
Tier 2 Individualized interventions. Subset of students receive interventions targeting specific needs.
Tier 3: Intensive interventions. Students who are ‘non-responders’ to Tiers I & II may be eligible for special education services, intensive interventions.
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Tier 1 Core InstructionTier I core instruction:• Is universal—available to all students.• Can be delivered within classrooms or throughout the school. • Is an ongoing process of developing strong classroom instructional
practices to reach the largest number of struggling learners.
All children have access to Tier 1 instruction/interventions. Teachers have the capability to use those strategies without requiring outside assistance.
Tier 1 instruction encompasses:
• The school’s core curriculum.• Al published or teacher-made materials used to deliver that curriculum.• Teacher use of ‘whole-group’ teaching & management strategies.
Tier I instruction addresses this question: Are strong classroom instructional strategies sufficient to help the student to achieve academic success?
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Tier I (Classroom) InterventionTier 1 intervention:
• Targets ‘red flag’ students who are not successful with core instruction alone.
• Uses ‘evidence-based’ strategies to address student academic or behavioral concerns.
• Must be feasible to implement given the resources available in the classroom.
Tier I intervention addresses the question: Does the student make adequate progress when the instructor uses specific academic or behavioral strategies matched to the presenting concern?
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What Are Appropriate Content-Area Tier 1 Universal Interventions for Secondary Schools?
“High schools need to determine what constitutes high-quality universal instruction across content areas. In addition, high school teachers need professional development in, for example, differentiated instructional techniques that will help ensure student access to instruction interventions that are effectively implemented.”
Source: Duffy, H. (August 2007). Meeting the needs of significantly struggling learners in high school. Washington, DC: National High School Center. Retrieved from http://www.betterhighschools.org/pubs/ p. 9
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The Key Role of Classroom Teachers in RTI: 6 Steps
1. The teacher defines the student academic or behavioral problem clearly.
2. The teacher decides on the best explanation for why the problem is occurring.
3. The teacher selects ‘evidence-based’ interventions.4. The teacher documents the student’s Tier 1 intervention plan.5. The teacher monitors the student’s response (progress) to the
intervention plan.6. The teacher knows what the next steps are when a student fails
to make adequate progress with Tier 1 interventions alone.
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The Key Role of Classroom Teachers in RTI…
1. The teacher defines the student academic or behavior problem in clear, specific, measurable terms.
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Defining Academic or Behavioral ProblemsDescribe the student problem to provide a meaningful instructional context. The teacher is more likely to select an effective intervention to help a struggling student if the student problem is first clearly defined and put into a meaningful context. This expanded definition includes information about the conditions under which the academic problem is observed and typical or expected level of performance. – Conditions. Describe the environmental conditions or task demands in place when
the academic problem is observed. – Problem Description. Describe the actual observable academic behavior in which
the student is engaged. Include rate, accuracy, or other quantitative information of student performance.
– Typical or Expected Level of Performance. Provide a typical or expected performance criterion for this skill or behavior. Typical or expected academic performance can be calculated using a variety of sources,
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2. The teacher decides on the best explanation for what is causing the student problem.
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Big Ideas: The Four Stages of Learning Can Be Summed Up in the ‘Instructional Hierarchy’
(Haring et al., 1978)
Student learning can be thought of as a multi-stage process. The universal stages of learning include:
• Acquisition: The student is just acquiring the skill.• Fluency: The student can perform the skill but
must make that skill ‘automatic’.• Generalization: The student must perform the skill
across situations or settings.• Adaptation: The student confronts novel task
demands that require that the student adapt a current skill to meet new requirements.
Source: Haring, N.G., Lovitt, T.C., Eaton, M.D., & Hansen, C.L. (1978). The fourth R: Research in the classroom. Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co.
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3. The teacher selects one or more ‘evidence-based’ interventions to address the student problem.
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A Sampling of Intervention Websites• The What Works Clearinghouse has a series of free practice
guides that detail best recommended practices for promoting adolescent literacy, study and organizational skills and more.http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/publications/practiceguides/
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A Sampling of Intervention Websites• Intervention Central has a collection of research-based
interventions for academic and behavioral concernshttp://www.interventioncentral.org
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4. The teacher documents the student’s Tier 1 (classroom) intervention plan.
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Interventions: Potential ‘Fatal Flaws’Any intervention must include 4 essential elements. The absence of any one of the elements would be considered a ‘fatal flaw’ (Witt, VanDerHeyden & Gilbertson, 2004) that blocks the school from drawing meaningful conclusions from the student’s response to the intervention:
1. Clearly defined problem. The student’s target concern is stated in specific, observable, measureable terms. This ‘problem identification statement’ is the most important step of the problem-solving model (Bergan, 1995), as a clearly defined problem allows the teacher or RTI Team to select a well-matched intervention to address it.
2. Baseline data. The teacher or RTI Team measures the student’s academic skills in the target concern (e.g., reading fluency, math computation) prior to beginning the intervention. Baseline data becomes the point of comparison throughout the intervention to help the school to determine whether that intervention is effective.
3. Performance goal. The teacher or RTI Team sets a specific, data-based goal for student improvement during the intervention and a checkpoint date by which the goal should be attained.
4. Progress-monitoring plan. The teacher or RTI Team collects student data regularly to determine whether the student is on-track to reach the performance goal.
Source: Witt, J. C., VanDerHeyden, A. M., & Gilbertson, D. (2004). Troubleshooting behavioral interventions. A systematic process for finding and eliminating problems. School Psychology Review, 33, 363-383.
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5. The teacher monitors the students response (progress) to the intervention plan.
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Classroom Methods of Data Collection• Existing records• Global skills checklist• Rating scales• Behavioral frequency count• Behavioral log• Student work samples• Work performance logs• Timed assessments (e.g., Curriculum-Based
Measurement)
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Example of Classroom Progress-Monitoring Tool: Global Skills Checklists
• Description: The teacher selects a global skill.
The teacher then breaks that global skill down into specific, observable ‘subskills’. Each subskill can be verified as ‘done’ or ‘not done’.
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Skills Checklists: Example• The teacher selects the global skill ‘organizational skills’.• That global skill is defined as having the following
components, each of which can be observed:arriving to class on time; bringing work materials to class; following teacher directions in a timely manner; knowing how to request teacher assistance when
needed; having an uncluttered desk with only essential work
materials.
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6. The teacher knows what the next steps are when a student fails to make adequate progress with Tier 1 interventions alone.
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Tier 1: Decision RulesThe classroom teacher knows that Tier 1 (classroom) interventions alone are not sufficient for the struggling student when:
• The student problem is clearly defined.• Appropriate evidence-based interventions have been selected that
match the student’s presenting concern(s).• The intervention plan has been tried for an adequate amount of
time (e.g., 4-8 instructional weeks).• Student baseline performance is measured, a goal is calculated,
and progress-monitoring data is collected during the intervention.• The student has not significantly closed the gap with peers despite
the classroom intervention plan.
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Secondary-Level Academic Tier 1 Intervention: Case ExampleJim Wrightwww.interventioncentral.org
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Tier 1 Case Example: Patricia: Reading Comprehension
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Case Example: Reading ComprehensionThe Problem• A student, Patricia, struggled in her social studies class,
particularly in understanding the course readings. Her teacher, Ms. Cardamone, decided that the problem was significant enough that the student required some individualized support.
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Case Example: Reading ComprehensionThe Evidence• Student Interview. Ms. Cardamone met with Patricia to ask her
questions about her difficulties with social studies content and assignments. Patricia said that when she reads the course text and other assigned readings, she doesn’t have difficulty with the vocabulary but often realizes after reading half a page that she hasn’t really understood what she has read. Sometimes she has to reread a page several times and that can be frustrating.
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Case Example: Reading ComprehensionThe Evidence (Cont.)• Review of Records. Past teacher report card comments suggest that
Patricia has had difficulty with reading comprehension tasks in earlier grades. She had received help in middle school in the reading lab, although there was no record of what specific interventions were tried in that setting.
• Input from Other Teachers. Ms. Cardamone checked with other teachers who have Patricia in their classes. All expressed concern about Patricia’s reading comprehension skills. The English teacher noted that Patricia appears to have difficulty pulling the main idea from a passage, which limits her ability to extract key information from texts and to review that information for tests.
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Case Example: Reading ComprehensionThe Intervention• Ms. Cardamone decided, based on the evidence collected, that
Patricia would benefit from training in identifying the main idea from a passage, rather than trying to retain all the information presented in the text. She selected two simple interventions: Question Generation and Text Lookback. She arranged to have Patricia meet with her during an open period to review these two strategies. During that meeting, Ms. Cardamone demonstrated how to use these strategies effectively with the social studies course text and other assigned readings.
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QuestionGeneration
Students are taught to boost their comprehension of expository passages by (1) locating the main idea or key ideas in the passage and (2) generating questions based on that information.
http://www.interventioncentral.org/htmdocs/interventions/rdngcompr/qgen.php
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Text Lookback
Text lookback is a simple strategy that students can use to boost their recall of expository prose by identifying questions that require information from the text and then looking back in the text in a methodical manner to locate that information.
http://www.interventioncentral.org/htmdocs/interventions/rdngcompr/txtlkbk.php
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Case Example: Reading ComprehensionDocumentation and Goal-Setting• Ms Cardamone filled out a Tier 1 intervention plan for the
student. On the plan, she listed interventions to be used, a checkup date (4 instructional weeks), and data to be used to assess student progress.
• Data: Ms. Cardamone decided that she would rate the student’s grasp of text content in two ways: – Student self-rating (1-3 scale; 1=don’t understand; 3 = understand
well)– Quiz grades.
• She collected baseline on both and set a goal for improvement.
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Case Example: Reading ComprehensionThe Outcome• When the intervention had been in place for 4 weeks, Ms.
Cardamone noted that Patricia appeared to have a somewhat better grasp of course content and expressed a greater grasp of material from the text.
• She shared her intervention ideas with other teachers working with Patricia. Because Patricia’s self-ratings of reading comprehension and quiz grades met the goals after 4 weeks, Ms. Cardamone decided to continue the intervention plan with the student without changes.
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