Response to Intervention (RTI)
What is Response to Intervention (RTI)
Response to Intervention is a multi-tiered system of response to meet the needs of individual students. Many educators see this program as either a plan for behavior in the classroom, or a program to meet the needs of underperforming students. While RtI can be used for those students, it can also be used to meet the needs of gifted students.
"The RTI process is a multi-step approach to providing services and interventions to students who struggle with learning at increasing levels of intensity. The progress students make at each stage of intervention is closely monitored. Results of this monitoring are used to make decisions about the need for further research-based instruction and/or intervention in general education, in special education, or both."
(National Center for Learning Disabilities, 2006)
What does RtI have to do with gifted students?
There is a common misconception that gifted students have an easy time processing information given to them in a classroom. We have to consider our twice exceptional students, students who may have a learning disability, yet are still gifted intellectually. RtI provides alternate data to be used rather than just the IQ score for identifying students who need specialized instruction.
Response to Intervention is a multi-tiered system of response to meet the needs of individual students. Many educators see this program as either a plan for behavior in the classroom, or a program to meet the needs of underperforming students. While RtI can be used for those students, it can also be used to meet the needs of gifted students.
"The RTI process is a multi-step approach to providing services and interventions to students who struggle with learning at increasing levels of intensity. The progress students make at each stage of intervention is closely monitored. Results of this monitoring are used to make decisions about the need for further research-based instruction and/or intervention in general education, in special education, or both."
(National Center for Learning Disabilities, 2006)
What does RtI have to do with gifted students?
There is a common misconception that gifted students have an easy time processing information given to them in a classroom. We have to consider our twice exceptional students, students who may have a learning disability, yet are still gifted intellectually. RtI provides alternate data to be used rather than just the IQ score for identifying students who need specialized instruction.