Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Week 4, Entry 6a: RTI & ELL special report
Great article! I will be checking out this guy's website for more information. I was astounded to learn that RTI doesn't require a complicated flow chart (that is all I have seen!) In fact the simplicity of his presentation on RTI is refreshing and makes good common sense to me! Two facts that I don't recall from my RTI training (which came in the form of 1 1/2 hour staff meeting after school-yawn!) are: we are all part of Tier 1 and the concept of fidelity check at each level. You mean someone has to watch my instruction? I must have missed that step but I think my whole building has missed that step! Yikes! Finally I loved the chart depicting the language difference for ELL and students with possible language disability. Very descriptive and helpful when analyzing students' language. Thank you for sharing this fabulous resource!
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Jenni,
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you about the complicated charts. We have some in my building who seem to have an unhealthy love of those charts. I don't know about your staff, but I think that sometimes with how complicated it has been made, some are to worried about getting it right and end up not doing much.
Plus, I also don't remember anything about having someone observe my instruction. The think I find most frustrating in my building is that I really don't think that there is any follow through. The teachers make the decisions about what the interventions are, but it feels that there is no one checking in with us to see how it is going.
Hi, Jenni
ReplyDeleteI too appreciated the simplicity of his RTI presentation. I often get caught up with the technical terms when in fact, RTI is something we are already doing for our students in the classroom - it's a form differentiation. If students don't understand something, we use a different approach, or scale information back - another term we are familiar with - scaffolding.
Sometimes I think new labels are used for what teachers already do called
"best practices" for their students.