A must-have new resource to help teachers meet the challenge of preparing students with diverse needs to achieve ambitious new standards in an era of greater accountability.
From Jim Wright, founder of Intervention Central and author of the bestselling books RTI Toolkit and RTI: Success in Secondary Schools, comes Strategies for Struggling Learners in the Era of CCSS & RTI. This comprehensive new problem-solving manual provides teachers with research-based strategies for strengthening instruction, delivering academic interventions, and addressing behavior management issues for both general and special education students.
The book is designed to help teachers quickly and efficiently locate research-supported, classroom-based solutions for overcoming a variety of impediments to student success. Readers will find practical how-to advice for
- Improving direct instruction in general education classrooms
- Implementing critical elements of strong core classroom behavior management
- Planning interventions that promote student success in the Common Core
- Addressing common classroom behavior problems
- Increasing student motivation
- Setting academic goals
- Using general classroom measures to track and assess interventions
- Using Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) to track interventions
- Increasing student responsibility through self-management
The book is designed primarily for teachers to use as a toolkit in the classroom, however it is also a useful resource for
- Principals – to use as guide to implementing effective schoolwide instructional and behavior management practices.
- Building administrators – to use as roadmap for building teacher capacity to provide Tier 1 interventions under RTI.
- District administrators – to use as a standard toolkit to help teachers find strategies to assist students who are struggling with meeting CCSS. To serve as foundation for a district-wide definition of how RTI Tier 1 (classroom) interventions should be carried out.
- Instructors in teacher-training programs – to assign as course text and/or for graduate students to consult as they work with students in school settings.
- Staff developers – to use for in-service teacher training and professional development.
Although making changes to one’s professional practice is hard work, any teacher who carefully reviews and implements best practices in core instruction, academic intervention, behavior management, and classroom assessment, such as those presented in this book, can expect to see substantial gains in student performance.
