RTI and the Paraeducator's Roles

RTI and the Paraeducator's Roles

Author: Mary Lasater

Publisher: National Professional Resources Inc./Dude Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781934032756

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As RTI becomes a reality in more schools, all staff must be able to support this initiative. This book explicitly provides paraeducators with the tools that will make them a meaningful part of the RTI team, with focus on the roles of Collaborator, Communicator, Instructional Supporter and Progress Monitor.


Let's Team Up!

Let's Team Up!

Author: Kent Gerlach, Ed.D.

Publisher: National Professional Resources, Inc.

Published: 2014-11

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1935609947

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School teams are more important now than ever before to meet the needs of all students. With more diverse, inclusive classrooms, larger class sizes, and greater workloads, teachers increasingly depend upon the contribution of paraeducators. In Let's Team Up, Kent Gerlach provides a convenient checklist to help teachers, principals, and paraeducators understand their roles and responsibilities as they relate to each other. The book offers >tips for teachers on how to work effectively with paraeducators; >tips for paraeducators on clarifying their jobs and their relationships with students and school staff; >tips for principals on the supervision of paraeducators. This convenient resource will help school teams successfully meet the needs of all students!


RTI Team Building

RTI Team Building

Author: Kelly Broxterman

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2013-01-16

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1462510884

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School teams play an essential role in the successful implementation of response to intervention (RTI). This user-friendly book offers a roadmap for creating effective RTI teams and overcoming common pitfalls. The authors discuss the nuts and bolts of planning and facilitating meetings during which data-based decisions are made about screening, interventions, and progress monitoring for individual students (K-6) or the whole school. Ways to develop sustainable team practices and strengthen collaboration are described. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes more than two dozen reproducible planning forms and other handy tools. Purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas.


RTI

RTI

Author: Daryl F. Mellard

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2007-11-01

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1452295263

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"Mellard and Johnson not only help us understand what RTI is and why we need it, they go the next step and tell us how to make it happen." —Joseph Jenkins, Professor of Special Education University of Washington "This is a richly informative book on a most important and timely topic to hundreds of thousands of practitioners, parents, and policy makers." —Doug Fuchs, Nicholas Hobbs Chair in Special Education and Human Development Vanderbilt University The nuts-and-bolts handbook for implementing RTI schoolwide! Written by leading special education researchers with the National Research Center on Learning Disabilities and the University of Kansas, this comprehensive yet accessible reference provides administrators with practical guidelines for launching RTI in their schools. Highlighting the powerful role that RTI can play in prevention, early intervention, and determining eligibility for special services, the authors cover the three tiers of RTI, schoolwide screening, progress monitoring, and changes in school structures and individual staff roles. The text includes: Site-based examples and student case studies A discussion of the challenges to successful implementation A section on frequently asked questions RTI: A Practitioner′s Guide to Implementing Response to Intervention is an invaluable resource that helps administrators increase the likelihood of success for students at risk and meet the requirements of NCLB, Reading First, and the reauthorization of IDEA 2004.


What Every School Leader Needs to Know about RTI

What Every School Leader Needs to Know about RTI

Author: Margaret Searle

Publisher: ASCD

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1416611053

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Discusses how response to intervention (RTI) plans can be effective, outlining the roles school leaders need to play at each step of implementation and improvement in order to be proactive and consistent.


RTI

RTI

Author: Daryl F. Mellard

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2007-11-01

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1452208190

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This comprehensive yet accessible reference covers the three tiers of RTI, schoolwide screening, progress monitoring, challenges to implementation, and changes in school structures and individual staff roles.


The Paraprofessional's Guide to Effective Behavioral Intervention

The Paraprofessional's Guide to Effective Behavioral Intervention

Author: Betty Y. Ashbaker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-02-20

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1317811844

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The Paraprofessional’s Guide to Effective Behavioral Intervention is a comprehensive guide to appropriate behavioral strategies in the classroom, based on the Least Restrictive Behavioral Intervention (LRBI) and Positive Behavioral Intervention Strategies (PBIS). This highly practical book provides: an increased understanding of the processes underlying student behavior in the classroom, including motivation a wide range of strategies for establishing and promoting positive behavior, as well as counteracting and reducing negative behaviors skills related to nationally recognized standards for paraprofessional competence an understanding of widely accepted principles and practices such as Response to Intervention (RTI). Set in the context of the legal requirements for paraprofessionals to work "under the direction of a professional" (ESEA) and be "appropriately supervised" (IDEA), The Paraprofessional’s Guide to Effective Behavioral Intervention illuminates research-based, practical strategies shown to be effective in a wide range of educational settings and which can be implemented immediately and with confidence.


RTI Strategies for Secondary Teachers

RTI Strategies for Secondary Teachers

Author: Susan Gingras Fitzell

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2011-09-21

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1412992222

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Fitzell, a teacher, speaker, and educational consultant specializing in special education and response-to-intervention, shows classroom teachers and intervention specialists at the secondary level how to use research-based response-to-intervention strategies in math, vocabulary, reading comprehension, writing, and across the curriculum. After details on response-to-intervention in general, its efficacy, and the evidence supporting its use in secondary education, each chapter outlines two or more strategies through sample lesson plans that have been reformatted to follow response-to-intervention, with discussion of the research on their effectiveness and instructions for implementation of lessons and extension activities for all three tiers. The last chapter addresses acceleration centers. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).


A Guide to Co-Teaching With Paraeducators

A Guide to Co-Teaching With Paraeducators

Author: Ann I. Nevin

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1412957648

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Offers guidelines to teachers on how to collaborate with paraeducators to positively affect the achievement of students with special needs, explaining what paraeducators are, discussing their roles and responsibilities, collaborative processes, teaching approaches, and support systems, and including examples from the field.


The One-Stop Guide to Implementing RTI

The One-Stop Guide to Implementing RTI

Author: Maryln Appelbaum

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2008-10-08

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1452207267

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Use this nuts-and-bolts guide to implement RTI schoolwide and help all your students succeed! Concise and reader-friendly, this resource walks administrators and teachers through the complete process of implementing Response to Intervention (RTI) in classrooms and schoolwide. Packed with how-to’s and reproducibles for instruction and developing collaborative teams, this book provides more than 100 easy-to-use academic and behavioral interventions and includes information on: Progress monitoring and universal screening basics Current research and examples of tiered instruction in action Clearly defined team responsibilities Techniques for differentiating instruction Research-based interventions for literacy and mathematics Data collection, fidelity of implementation, and professional development