Title: Ideas to Engage Students as Members of Your Middle or High School RTI Intervention Team Jim Wright www.interventioncentral.org
1Ideas to Engage Students as Members of Your
Middle or High School RTI Intervention TeamJim
Wrightwww.interventioncentral.org
2RTI Intervention Planning Implementation A
Sampling of Responsibilities
- Collect background/baseline data
- From instructional staff
- From the archival database (cumulative folder,
etc.) - Communicate with parents
- Communicate with student (and train in steps of
meeting participation) - Carry out elements of intervention plan
- Write up meeting minutes (intervention plan)
- Verify that intervention actually happened as
designed - Collect progress-monitoring data
- Share information with administration about
intervention team referrals and building case
load
3Intervention Responsibilities Examples at
Teacher, School-Wide, and Student Levels
Teacher
Student
School-Wide
- Lab services (math, reading, etc.)
- Remedial course
- Homework club
- Providing additional instruction to students
during selected free periods
- Take agenda to teacher to be reviewed and signed
- Self-monitor and chart their organizational
skills (e.g., bringing work materials to class) - Seeking help from teachers during free periods
- Signed agenda
- Attention prompts
- Peer-Guided Pause
4Promoting Student Involvement in Secondary School
RTI Intervention Team Meetings
- Train students in self-advocacy skills to
participate at intervention team meetings (can be
informal e.g., conversation with Guidance
Counselor) - Provide the student with different options to
communicate needs, e.g., - Learning needs questionnaire
- Personal interview prior to meeting
- Advocate at meeting to support student
- Ensure student motivation to take part in the
intervention plan (e.g., having student sign
Intervention Contract)
5When Interventions Require Student
Participation...
- Write up a simple Intervention Contract that
spells out - What the students responsibilities are in the
intervention plan - A listing of the educators connected to parts of
the intervention plan that require student
participation--and their responsibilities - A contact person whom the student can approach
with questions about the contract - Have the student sign the Intervention Contract
- Provide a copy of the Intervention Contract to
the student and parents - Train the student to ensure that he or she is
capable of carrying out all assigned steps or
elements in the intervention plan
6Sample Student Intervention Contract
7If the Student Appears Unwilling to Follow
Through With the Plan
- Verify that the student has the necessary skills
to complete all steps or elements of the
intervention plan without difficulty. - Check that all adults who have a support role in
the students personal intervention plan are
carrying out their responsibilities consistently
and correctly. - Hold an Exit conference with the
student--either with the entire RTI Intervention
Team or with the students adult contact. It is
recommended that the students parent be at this
meeting. - At the Exit meeting
- Review all elements of the plan with the student.
- Share the evidence with the student that he or
she appears able to implement every part of the
personal intervention plan. - Tell the student that he or she is in controland
that the intervention cannot be successful unless
the student decides to support it. - Tell the student that his or her intervention
case is closed but that the student can restart
the plan at any time by contacting the adult
contact.