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Module 1073

Implementing RTI: Instruction and Strategies for Academic Success

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Apply this toward your professional development requirements
(1 credit, 30 hours or certificate of completion)

Tuition: $225 complete

What You'll Learn

With a proven track record of increasing achievement in students, Response to Intervention (RTI) has ingrained itself into the foundation of schools across the country. By following the scientifically-based steps and protocols, educators successfully identify students’ strengths, weaknesses, and abilities so that they can effectively target intervention efforts.
In this module, you will learn how to successfully implement proven RTI strategies, as well as monitor and assess your students’ progress. You will discover:

• The three tiers to academic and behavioral interventions
• Strategies to properly identify student needs
• Tips to effectively implement proven RTI strategies
• Monitoring techniques that provide scientifically-based results

Highlights

Effective Instruction for All Students

• Classroom organization and behavior management
• Activities that support positive reinforcement
• Utilizing Teacher Support Teams for RTI problem solving
• Implications and outcome of RTI behavior management

Targeted Behavior Strategies and Problem Solving for Individual Interventions

• 4 stages of RTI problem solving
• Using interview protocols to identify and evaluate the problem and it’s true source
• RTI methods and principles for data collection
• Strategies for successful intervention implementation

Intensive, Sustained Instruction for Struggling Students

• Determining the existence of a specific learning disability
• Options and consequences of learning disability identification
• Laws and regulations surrounding RTI implementation
• RTI in special education classrooms

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!

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Your Instructor

Dr. Dan Reschly is Professor of Education and Psychology in Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. He is Chair of the #1 ranked Department of Special Education in the United States. Widely recognized as an expert in Response To Intervention (RTI), Dr. Reschly regularly writes and presents on the topic of RTI, and delivers continuing education workshops in 46 states. He has received three NASP Distinguished Service Awards, the NASP Lifetime Award, and the Stroud Award. In 2004 He was identified as the most widely-cited author in school psychology books and journals over 2002-2004.

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	If you are taking this course for a Certificate of Completion, you do not need to complete the assessments and need only submit final projects. If you want to receive 3 Professional Development credits or 90 Professional Development hours, you must complete all the assessments and 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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