With regard to RtI, what types of collaboration are taking place at your school between general classroom teachers and speech language pathologists, exceptional education teachers, psychologists, and other relevant personnel and parents in planning programs to meet the needs of learners?
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October 29th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
We can hope that all concerned stake holders have an understanding of 3-tier instruction and the differences among the core ,strategic and intervention programs that are used for instruction. Along with understanding tiered instruction, we need to be sure that all understand the flow of instruction, criteria to place students in a tier, and the assessments that need to be given to best serve the student population.
November 1st, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Every Monday afternoon, at my high school, we meet to discuss interventions for our striving students. The student’s classroom teachers, the school psychologist, ESE teachers, literacy coach, an assistant principal and when appropriate the speech pathologist are all invited to these discussions. All personnel are given advance notice of our meeting and expected to bring relevant information to the meeting. After the student information is reviewed, we discuss interventions. Before the end of the meeting, a date is determined to review the impact of the interventions.
It is our hope that these collaborative, reflective meetings and their outcomes will have a positive impact on our students.
November 6th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
At our school we are only at the beginning stages of RtI. We began by identifying a group of educators (ESE teacher, guidance counselor, principal, coaches, psychologist, and classroom teachers) to be the guiding force for bringing the RtI concepts to the school. The first step was for this group to met together for a full day of training on RtI. During this day we discussed the framework, theoretical base, possible implications, and possible hurdles to be overcome in the process.
We are now planning on meeting together to decide how this information will be fleshed out in our school. How to encourage teacher buy-in to the process? How to best service students? And a myriad of other issues. You will need to check back as we move along the process.
Before this point and during this process we are still meeting regularly to discuss student concerns, but there are significant theoretical changes needed before the entire staff is ready to fully implement RtI.