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RtI Essential Components
1. 3-Tiered Model Appoach
2. Using a Problem-Solving Method for decision making
3. Integrated data system that informs instruction
Tier 1 Instruction - designed for
all learners and meets the needs of a majority of students. It consists
of universal, research-based interventions for all students. It's
preventative and proactive. A screening, called a curriculum based
measures (CBM), is conducted on every student three times a year. A
screening is a quick assessment that measures a student's skills or
behaviors expected for his or her grade level. Using the results of the
screening, students are progress monitored weekly or bi-weekly
depending on their instructional recommendation. As students progress
through progress monitoring, it may recommend that a student be provided
additional instructional support to address the student's areas of
need as related to the data collection.
Tier 2 Instruction - designed to
provide strategic, targeted, extensions to the core curriculum.
Identified students receive high efficiency and rapid response. Tier 2
intervention is in addition to the student's regular classroom
instruction and may be provided within the classroom or in a separate
room. Tier 2 intervention usually means that a student is: taught in a
small group; receiving additional instruction time; and/or taught using
various instructional methods such as more opportunities for practice
and more intensive instruction on difficult concepts.
Tier 3 Instruction - designed as
intense intervention and extensions to the core and tier 2 instruction
to meet individual needs. Interventions are of high intensity. For
students who are still not progressing with Tier 2 intervention, Tier 3
intervention may be provided. Instruction at this level may be more
frequent, smaller group and/or for a longer period of time than that
provided in Tiers 1 or 2. Tier 3 may utilize materials or programs
which focus specifically on skills with which the student may be having
difficulty.
Steps of the Problem Solving Approach
Click to see the RtI flow chart.
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