Tpss Intervention Guidance Document

Tpss Intervention Guidance Document

TPSS INTERVENTION GUIDANCE DOCUMENT

What is an intervention?

  1. An intervention is a planned set of procedures that are aimed at teaching a specific set of academic or social skills to a student or students and would have the following components:
  2. It is planned. Planning implies data based decision making. Have a rationale and alignment for the intervention. Why are you doing it?
  3. It is sustained. Implemented in a series of lessons over time.
  4. It targets or is focused on a particular student(s) and set of skills(s). Be specific. What will you teach? Include curricular adaptations, materials, time allocated and instructional method.
  5. It is goal oriented. Intended to produce a change in knowledge/behavior from some beginning baseline toward some more desirable goal.

It includes evaluation procedures. How will you know if your instruction is effective? Monitor the progress. K. Howell; CEC, Seattle, 2009

II.Although commercially prepared programs and…manuals and materials are inviting, they are not necessary …A recent review of research suggest that interventions are research based and likely to be successful, if they are correctly targeted and provide explicit instruction in the skill, an appropriate level of challenge, sufficient opportunities to respond to and practice the skill, and immediate feedback on performance…Thus these components could be used as criteria with which to judge potential …interventions.

M. Burns, K. Gibbons, (2008). Implementing rti in elementary and secondary schools. Routledge: New York

What is the purpose of intervention?

  1. The purpose of providing intervention to “at-risk” or struggling students is to (1) close the achievement gap to enable the student to meet grade level standards, (2) to determine what strategies are effective, (3) to determine how a student learns and to (4) make data based decisions regarding the student’s education.
  2. Therefore, this intervention data may be developed, collected and used for making educational decisions through the SBLC process, but not solely for the purpose of the SBLC process.

What are some intervention information sources?

  1. CCSS: Reading Standards: foundational skills (K-5); “instruction should be differentiated: the point is to teach students what they need to learn.”
  2. CCSS Spiral Curriculum K-12; TPSS blackboard
  3. School-wide strategies
  4. LDOE teacher support tool box
  5. Core curriculum materials and TE suggestions/strategies for differentiating instruction
  6. Kagan Cooperative Learning; differentiated instruction
  7. Think Central: Splash into Phonics; Comprehension Expedition
  8. Study Island
  9. LDOE: Reading Runway; Newton’s Classroom
  10. Florida Center for Reading Research
  11. interventioncentral.org
  12. Program purchase availability per school site
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