Classmate name- Alaina Irias

chose to review RTI for English Language Learners: Appropriate Screening, Progress Monitoring, and Instructional Planning. The first factor to response to intervention is to know your students, ELL students are largely form homes where Spanish is the native language. The second factor is that linguistic background; students may not get a chance to fully develop their first language before they have to add a second language.

The third factor is their background experience, and the fourth factor is educational experience if students are coming from home schooling, traditional education charter school urban or rural areas, all of these impact student education. Formative assessment is crucial for screening students and monitoring their progress through the class, assessments given can help identify students that are struggling with core concepts.

Teachers must make sure their assessments are reliable and valid, meaning the assessment tests what you want it to test, and the assessment produces similar scores no matter the condition and situation. There are unique considerations for progress and monitoring of ELL first being that progress in all languages needs to be monitored. Set rigorous goals that support grade-level standards, and evaluate growth of true peers to determine whether instruction is generally effective for students with similar linguistic and educational experience. As for evidence based instruction the PLUSS model is the most common meaning preteach critical vocabulary, language modeling and opportunities for using academic language, use visuals, systematic and explicit instruction in reading components and strategies, strategic use of native language.

There are strengths of both models, being that they take the students background and home environment where they learn the most and make sure they are kept in mind when teaching in the classroom, because students are learning their second language. There are challenges that exist in implementing RTI model in schools and that is because teachers may have a hard time getting to know all of their ELL students and their background.

RTI for English Language Learners: Appropriate Screening, Progress Monitoring, and Instructional Planning.

(http://www.rti4success.org)

Classmate name- Anita Browner Ware

Using a Response to Intervention Framework to Improve Student Learning

The article is a guide that discuss or explains how the research-based framework for response to intervention for leaders to improve the learning for all students. The guide shows how state leverage how to asses to support school improvements statewide within the ESEA flexibility plans. Using a Response to Intervention Framework to Improve Student Learning is designed to help state and local policymakers and practitioners implement ESEA flexibility plans. The guide called the pocket guide gives a description of the essential components of Response to Intervention, the guide also discuss the requirements for Principle 2 in the application for building state, district, and school capacity to improve learning in all schools-particularly low-performing schools and those with the largest achievement gaps and the application of a research based response to intervention framework addressing principle 2 in approved plans is also discussed. Due to the extreme research for the implementation of response to intervention with careful thought address the proposed reforms.

Discrepancy Model, traditional method used to determine if a student has a learning disability and needs special education services. Response to intervention model approach identifies and supports early learning and behavior needs of students with a multi-tier approach.Advantages of Response to Intervention (RTI) Model The Response to Intervention Model (RTI), allows schools to intervene early to meet the needs of struggling learners.The test-score discrepancy model requires chronic school failure before special education supports can be given.