Supporting Underperfoming Students

Supporting Underperfoming Students

  • Submitted By: rhilby
  • Date Submitted: 02/07/2014 3:13 PM
  • Category: Miscellaneous
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At Patriot Elementary, the process that is mainly used to address and support underperforming students is the 3-tiered RTI process. This response to intervention is supported by a team of the regular classroom teacher, a specials teacher, the school psychologist, the school counselor, the principal, and other personnel that have a direct impact on the students. Before a student can be brought before the team for intervention purposes, the first tier needs to be exhausted. This is where the regular classroom teacher had taught the curriculum with fidelity, adapted the lessons to the students’ needs, used multiple strategies to teach the same concept, and the student still is showing at-risk performance levels. When these have been demonstrated, then the team starts intervening with discussions about those struggling students at the 2nd level of this intervention process. This is where the team collaborates about targeted interventions and the teacher, along with some aid from specialists, implements them in the classroom. The 3rd tier of this response provides the struggling student with individualized interventions with an instructional intensity to diminish the skill deficits that are demonstrated. The RTI process is widely used by school districts around the country in some form.
One weakness that I see in this system, is that it takes about 2 months’ worth of data and screenings to determine eligibility for any targeted interventions to take place. In the meantime, that student will still be struggling in school and not making academic gains. Patriot Elementary uses the RTI process to also place the student on an IEP for special education services when the 3 tiers have not proven to be successful forms of intervention. A parent of one of my students who is currently in the RTI process conveyed to me that her child should have been on an IEP without going through RTI due to prior doctor diagnosis through assessments and brain development issues. Parents and...

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