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Module 1013

Response to Intervention: Academic and Behavioral Strategies that Work

Apply this towards your professional development requirements

Tuition: $225 complete

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What You'll Learn

Response to Intervention has proven itself to be an effective tool for increasing the academic and behavioral progress of many students. The success of RTI, however, depends heavily on whether it is appropriately implemented. This module goes beyond the basics of RTI and delivers implementation strategies and actual interventions that lead to improved learning for all students at all levels. This module will show you:

    Proven ways to implement an effective intervention model at your school
  • How to best overcome the challenges and pitfalls of RTI
  • Direct skill measures and warning signs that help you identify students at risk
  • Scientifically-proven intervention methods that are matched to your specific needs
  • Monitoring and evaluation methods based on benchmarks and decision rules
  • Simplified ways to understand the connections between IDEA and NCLB
  • The Multi tiered approach to RTI and why it works

Highlights

Direct Instruction: What Is and Isn't Working

  • What the research shows: RTI instruction/intervention that has worked
  • Examples of scientifically-based, explicit instruction for educators
  • Systematic intervention approaches that help students make progress

Implementing an Effective Multi Tiered Intervention Model

  • How do you find the kids who need academic and behavioral support?
  • What roles do regular and special education services play for all students?
  • How can you help parents overcome resistance and increase plan commitment?
  • Which Positive support strategies create lasting results — and adhere to the law?

RTI Progress Monitoring and Evaluation - Overcoming Challenges

  • Establish effective progress monitoring of students' outcomes
  • How do you set goals that specifically match your students' needs?
  • Decision rules: What to do after RTI is implemented
  • How should you handle the "Can't do" and "Won't do" students?

The Virtual Teachers Lounge™

Check in with your peers and get answers to your questions – any time, 24/7. Taking this course will give you exclusive access to the thoughts, insights and experience of other educators and K-12 experts discussing your topics and giving you solutions and ideas for whatever is on your mind. In the Teachers' lounge, you can:

  • Learn new, working strategies and solutions from other educators – live!
  • Get answers to your toughest questions from top K-12 experts
  • Discuss course topics with your peers and benefit from their experiences
  • Share your success stories and best practices to benefit other teachers and administrators
  • Get new perspectives, fresh ideas and guidance – whenever you need it.
  • You can log whenever is most convenient for you, 24/7

All you have to do is sign up for this course, and you're in!

Connect with, hear from and get help from you peers.


Materials & Assessment

Lectures Your lectures, delivered by one of the nation's leading, recognized experts on this topic, are presented in multiple parts to make listening and tracking your progress easier. You can listen to each as often as you like by playing it on your computer, downloading it to your iPod or other MP3 player, even burning it to CD. Listen wherever it is most convenient for you: at home, in your car; at the park; and whenever you like: before or after work, at night or on weekends. Many educators can complete a module in only a week.
Text Resources Virtual text resources are downloadable and expand on the material covered in your lectures. They may include articles, web links to related materials and web sites, definitions of important terms and concepts, and a bibliography. All materials can be viewed on your computer or downloaded and printed.
Assessment To receive your Certificate of Completion or Certificate of Attendance and earn Professional Development/Continuing Education units/credits/hours, you will need to complete all assessments and submit all final projects.
Virtual Teachers Lounge To gain Professional Development credits or hours for any of these three modules, you must participate in the Virtual teachers Lounge discussion for that module. If you are not seeking credits or hours, participation in the Lounge is not mandatory, but you are still welcome to connect with and share your thoughts, questions, insights and experience with your peers at any time.
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Response to Intervention: Academic and Behavioral Strategies that Work

Tuition: $225
Contact us for our quantity discount policy at questions@americancenterforeducators.org