ACTUAL UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Core concepts (4) - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅○ Effective instruction
○ Frequent assessment
○ Immediate response
Collaboration with home
What is RTI? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅○ An instructional approach that serves two
primary functions:
§ Provide early intervention services to struggling learners to improve their academic skills
§ Used to identify students with Learning Disabilities
How many tiers are in RTI? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅○ Response to intervention can
have many tiers
○ School systems will vary concerning the level of tiers they may have
○ They can range from 3-6 levels
Designing School wide systems for students success
(academic instruction) - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅§ Universal interventions
□ For all students
□ Preventive or proactive
§ Secondary interventions
□ For some students
□ High efficiency
□ Rapid response
§ Tertiary interventions
□ For individual students
□ Assessment based
,□ High intensity
§ If students do not improve, could be eligible for special education
Behavioral instruction - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅§ Universal interventions
□ For all students
□ All settings
□ Preventive, proactive
□ Use same rules for each school
® Respectful
® Responsible
® safe
□ Reinforcement system
□ Reward students for good behavior
□ Do the best we can to have the bad behaviors to stop escalating
§ Secondary intervention
□ For some students: at risk
□ High efficiency
□ Rapid response
§ Tertiary interventions
□ For individual students
□ Assessment based
□ Intense, durable procedures
Who provides RTI? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Solely general education teachers
What makes RTI unique or different? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅This model refers to
providing a validated (based on research) interventions to students in the instructional area of
need before determining whether a student qualifies for special education services
RTI with 4 tiers - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅○ Core classroom instruction for all (80%)
§ Intervention for all students by differentiating instruction
, ○ Targeted small group interventions (15%)
§ Strategic intervention for student "at risk" of failure, supplemental support with increased
time and intensity
○ Intensive, individualized interventions (5%)
§ Customized support for "at high risk" students
§ One on one or small group
§ Special education eligibility and determination
○ Special education
§ What happens after SPED recommendation or a service delivery model intergraded within
tier of instruction match to the student's skill needs
RTI with 3 tier intervention model - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅○ Core classroom
instruction
§ All students
§ Core classroom instruction provided to all students that is based on scientific research
(evidence-based instruction)
§ Benchmark testing at 3 times during a year (fall, winter, spring) to determine instructional
needs
§ Ongoing professional development so that teachers are equipped to provide quality
instruction to their students
§ The classroom teacher provides instruction
○ Supplemental Instruction
§ Approximately 20-30% of students
§ Example: students get an additional 30 minutes of intensive small-group reading
instruction daily
§ We progress monitor at least twice a month to see student performance
§ This instruction may be provided by the classroom teacher, a specialized reading teacher,
or another teacher trained in tier 2 reading methods
○ Intensive intervention
§ Approximately 5-10% of students
§ More explicit, more intensive, and specifically designed instruction is needed
§ Example: two additional 30-minute sessions of specialized small group reading instruction
are provided