Solutions
Dimension 1: Strength ✔✔How well the program works specifically for students with intensive
intervention needs
Dimension 2: Dosage ✔✔Size of the instructional group, number of minutes each session lasts,
and the number of sessions provided each week.
Dimension 3: Allignment ✔✔The extent to which the intervention addresses the target student's
full set of academic skills deficits, does not address skills the target student has already mastered,
and incorporates a meaningful focus on grade-appropriate curricular standards.
Dimension 4: Attention to transfer ✔✔The extent to which intervention is systematically
designed to help students transfer the skills they learn to other formats and contexts.
Dimension 5: Comprehensiveness ✔✔Reflects the number of explicit instruction principles the
intervention incorporates
, Dimension 6: Behavior Support ✔✔Interventions that incorporate self-regulation and executive
function components
Dimension 7: Individualization ✔✔Data-based intervention. To implement teachers collect
progress monitoring data frequently and apply DBI decision rules to determine if the intervention
is producing adequate response for the target student.
Which co-teaching to model metacognition while reading? ✔✔Team teaching: one models
reading behavior aloud, other provides instruction of concepts
Which co-teaching if only one teacher is familiar? ✔✔One teach, one assist
What to do if para knows more information about a subject than you ✔✔Ask them to lead the
lesson with your assistance
Tier 2 over tier 1 ✔✔Data is collected more frequently and over a longer period
What needs to happen before changes are made to tier 1 ✔✔Is the instruction high quality and
scientifically based