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Course 1069

Response to Intervention: Successful Implementation from Start to Finish

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Apply this towards your professional development requirements

Tuition: $575 for all 3 modules complete

This course provides a comprehensive examination of Response to Intervention (RTI), a scientifically-based process of identifying and assisting struggling students. In this course you’ll discover the elements that make up a successful RTI program, how to target struggling learners at an early age, and proven strategies for monitoring student progress throughout the process. Led by Dan Reschly, one of the nation’s foremost RTI experts, this course will outline the three-tiered system that most RTI programs utilize, as well as how to accurately benchmark student performance. This convenient online course lets you earn Professional Development credits, hours or certificates of completion whenever and wherever you like. It combines the following three learning modules:

• RTI: A Proven Model for Reaching and Assisting Struggling Students
• RTI: Tiered Intervention Strategies for Improving Student Performance
• Implementing RTI: Instruction and Strategies for Academic Success

What You'll Learn

As a teacher or administrator, chances are you face a recurring challenge – what do you do with struggling students? In the classroom of yesterday, academically-challenged students were simply assigned to special education classrooms. Or, they fell through the cracks of the school system altogether. But with special education budgets increasingly stretched, school officials are looking at Response to Intervention (RTI) as a means of identifying struggling students at an early age.

In this module, you’ll undergo a through introduction to RTI and examine why it’s gaining traction as an effective method for identifying and preventing academic failure. Dr. Dan Reschly, a noted RTI expert, will outline the purpose of RTI and examine the critical features of a successful RTI program. In addition, he will present several case studies illustrating how RTI has been successfully implemented. In this module you’ll discover how to:

• Identify struggling learners at an early age
• Determine which course of action to take with under-performing students
• Assess how Federal and State legislation has impacted RTI programs
• Utilize scientifically-based data to drive performance improvement
• Apply formative assessment to monitor student performance
• Develop benchmarks that accurately gauge student improvement

Highlights

Response to Intervention Overview

• Elements that comprise a successful RTI program
• Rationale for implementing RTI in your school
• Scientifically-based strategies that match student needs
• Formative evaluation methods that accurately assess student performance

RTI in Action

• Examination of multiple-tiered intervention model
• What works vs. what doesn’t
• Case studies and success stories
• Federal legislation that impacts RTI implementation

Formative Assessments, Benchmarking and Prevention

• Analyzing benchmarking data to drive decision-making process
• Characteristics of effective formative evaluation measures
• Assessing student performance through Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM)
• Evaluating teacher effectiveness through data-based criteria

What You'll Learn

Correctly implementing instructional and behavioral intervention methods is critical to helping struggling students. An early implementation of the three-tiered approach to assisting students is more effective and less costly in the end. Intervention should be scaled to fit the needs of the student. This module will help you:

• Understand research-based academic interventions and examples
• Screen students to identify those below benchmarks
• Execute systematic intervention approaches that help students make progress

Highlights

Identifying and Treating Struggling Students Early

• How to intervene in general education classrooms for students who are off trajectory
• Setting well-defined, high behavioral and academic expectations to measure students against

Monitoring Progress through Benchmarking and Graphs

• Using graphs to visually represent progress
• Simple but powerful tools for facilitating intervention changes
• How to use data to make tough intervention decisions easier

Using Proven Techniques to Drive Student Improvement

• Eight Techniques to changing student behavior and comprehension
• How to avoid the negative reinforcement trap
• Six Key Principles of strong classroom organization and management

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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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.