Response to Intervention (RTI) is an innovative curriculum that will intervene with students who struggle within their classrooms. Versus tagging students as a special education student, RTI will allow them to learn how to learn within a classroom with the help of teachers. Some students just aren’t as fast of a learner as other students, and RTI is a great way to ensure that all students are learning. Giving the students tailored activities in order to learn the lessons is a great way to help the student become a life-long leaner, instead of telling them that they are a special education student.
RTI differs from Special Education because it isn’t just taking struggling students and putting them together in a separate room, and trying to teach them things that are below their learning level. I believe that Special Ed is needed in schools, but that it shouldn’t be place to send children that are just struggling in their classes. Students need to be helped, and giving them this tiered system to aid them into learning is a great!
RTI seems to be a very useful system, and I would gladly use this type of instruction in my classroom. This seems to be a more elaborate use of differentiation learning when I would give lessons/assignments on differing tiers to accommodate different types of learners. It would be great to have the whole school behind that way of thinking, and more support from different teachers to come up with ideas of lessons or assignments for these struggling students.
-Korri M. Kraemer
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