Response to Intervention
Response to Intervention (RTI) is a preventative school-wide framework for addressing the needs of all learners. In 2017, RTI was identified as having an effect size of 1.07 by Hattie and Zierer*, which considering anything over 0.4 is considered significant, RTI gets a gold star for raising student progress and achievement.
Consisting of a three-tiered approach to teaching instruction, it supports student learning by breaking instruction into three tiers. Tier 1 entails high quality evidence based instruction and differentiation (typically 80% of students),Tier 2 relates to small group intervention (typically 15% of students) with the aim of ‘catching students up’; and Tier 3 instruction is targeted, individualized support, with increased intensity (typically 5% of students), which often includes the identification of learning disabilities.
In addition to the three tiers, RTI consists of:
- Universal Screening – to identify those at risk of academic difficulties;
- Rigorous Progress Monitoring – where student progress is monitored in an ongoing capacity at a school wide and class level
- Data Based Decision Making – where students are moved between the tiers based on their level of response to intervention; and
- Parent Engagement approaches that are embedded to support their child in their literacy-learning journey.
RTI places a high emphasis on Tier 1 high quality evidence based practice within a culture of data informed practice across the school. Research tells us that when our classroom teaching is evidence based and the focus is on the impact of our teaching, the impact on teaching and learning achievement is high. In addition, with this preventative framework in place, the number of students slipping through the cracks is decreased, therefore reducing the number of students requiring intervention in the first place.
For many schools a few tweaks can make all the difference.
Literacy Impact can support schools to:
- Develop and implement a ‘School-wide Literacy and RTI Enhancement Plan’, based on international evidence of what makes the greatest impact on student learning
- Establish a three tiered instruction model in literacy
- Develop a strengths-based professional learning and coaching model in RTI where teachers feel valued, up skilled and supported
- Establish a proven school-wide preventative, intervention framework to reduce the number of students at risk in literacy, and promote student equity
- Effectively plan for a wide range of student abilities and know what to do to help them move forward, through a data informed practice model
- Develop high impact documented plans where teachers feel confident in writing SMART targets for students with additional needs.
- Make a significant improvement in literacy progress and achievement school-wide, where every student reaches their optimal potential
- Upskill teachers and Education Assistants in the Science of Reading and intervention
- Upskill teachers, Literacy leaders and Education Assistants in high impact writing instruction and intervention
- Engage parents in a school’s improvement journey as a key partners in their child’s learning success
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