Response to Intervention RTI Teams Potential Pitfalls Jim

Response to Intervention RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls Jim Wright www. interventioncentral. org 1

Response to Intervention RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls ! A teacher who has never referred to the RTI Team before comes to the meeting believing that the team can help her get the student referred for a special education evaluation. Baseline Data Collected Teacher Initial Intervention Referral Meeting Started & Held Monitored www. interventioncentral. org Follow-Up Meeting Held 2

Response to Intervention RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls ! The RTI Team discovers during the initial meeting that they lack crucial background/baseline information about student (e. g. , current reading levels, estimates of off-task behavior). Baseline Data Collected Teacher Initial Intervention Referral Meeting Started & Held Monitored www. interventioncentral. org Follow-Up Meeting Held 3

Response to Intervention RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls ! The referring teacher vents and vents about the student during the meeting, leaving very little time to follow the problem-solving steps. Baseline Data Collected Teacher Initial Intervention Referral Meeting Started & Held Monitored www. interventioncentral. org Follow-Up Meeting Held 4

Response to Intervention RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls ! The teacher and team start to talk about the student’s chaotic home situation. All hope is sucked from the room. Baseline Data Collected Teacher Initial Intervention Referral Meeting Started & Held Monitored www. interventioncentral. org Follow-Up Meeting Held 5

Response to Intervention RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls ! The RTI Team selects an intervention that does not logically link to the assessment information that they collected (e. g. , deciding to include the student in a self-esteem group when the identified problem is a reading deficit). Baseline Data Collected Teacher Initial Intervention Referral Meeting Started & Held Monitored www. interventioncentral. org Follow-Up Meeting Held 6

Response to Intervention RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls ! The RTI Team signs up to take on so much of the intervention and monitoring that the referring teacher has little to do. Baseline Data Collected Teacher Initial Intervention Referral Meeting Started & Held Monitored www. interventioncentral. org Follow-Up Meeting Held 7

Response to Intervention RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls ! Confidential information about something the referring teacher said at an RTI Team meeting is shared outside of the meeting—and that teacher finds out about it! Baseline Data Collected Teacher Initial Intervention Referral Meeting Started & Held Monitored www. interventioncentral. org Follow-Up Meeting Held 8

Response to Intervention RTI Teams: Potential Pitfalls ! The RTI Team comes together for a follow-up meeting and discovers that the teacher was not able to implement the intervention at all. Baseline Data Collected Teacher Initial Intervention Referral Meeting Started & Held Monitored www. interventioncentral. org Follow-Up Meeting Held 9