Goals

What are the goals of Response to Intervention?

According to the National Association of State Directors of Special Education, RTI tries to meet the following goals:

"1. The educational system can effectively teach all children 2. Early intervention is critical to preventing problems from getting out of control 3. The implementation of a multi-tiered service delivery model is necessary 4. A problem solving model should be used to make decisions between tiers 5. Research based interventions should be implemented to inform instruction 6. Data should drive decision making"

RTI provides a systematic process to students who are having challenges meeting academic benchmarks in the school system. RTI truly relies on data-based decision making which is essential for the other three components. These three components are screening, progress monitoring, and multi-leveled instruction. All of these components must work perfectly together in order to help the student reach their full potential. Universal screening is the first step in identifying the students who are at risk for learning difficulties. This stage is a way to target students who struggle to learn basic general education skills. Universal screening is typically conducted three times during the school year. These assessments consist of brief but important concepts on targeted skills and are highly predictive of future outcomes for each child. Progress monitoring is a set of assessment procedures for determining the extent to which students are benefiting from classroom instruction and for monitoring the effectiveness of the curriculum. Multi-leveled instruction is an assessment for all students to see which category they fall in based on their peers. Finally, data-based decision making is the process of putting all of the three steps together to fully classify if a student is in need for RTI services or not.



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