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9780470636596

Solution-Focused RTI : A Positive and Personalized Approach to Response-to-Intervention

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470636596

  • ISBN10:

    0470636599

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2010-05-01
  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass
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Summary

A proven method for helping struggling students succeedSolution-Focused RTI provides an effective approach to Response-to-Intervention using a "solution-focused" method, which emphasizes a student's strengths rather than his or her weaknesses. This important book guides educators to identify exceptions to students' learning problems and design personalized interventions that can help those students succeed. In this book Linda Metcalf provides teachers with the basic building blocks of the solution-focused approach and offers step-by-step guidelines for identifying exceptions, designing interventions, and implementing a three-tiered Response-to-Intervention process. Shows how to implement RTI using the positive and personalized "solution-focused" method Linda Metcalf is the author of seven books, including Counseling Toward Solutions, Second Edition Offers an innovative, collaborative approach between teachers, students, and parents Includes reproducible forms for teachers and studentsThis practical book helps teachers pinpoint research-based intervention strategies that work.

Table of Contents

About This Book
About the Author
Also
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Core Instruction For All Students
Simple Addition: Doing Things Diff erently Adds Up to Change
An Elementary Discovery
Intermediate Revelation
Raising the Bar and Rating the Middle School
High School Miracle
Turning Chaos into Compliments: A School Counselor Creates the Opportunity
Education Unleashed!
New Focus, New Process, New Results
Chapter Perspectives to Consider
Famous People with Educational Challenges: Priceless Lessons for RTI
Famous People Who Made It!
Strategies as Unique as Students' Learning Differences: Discoveries That Work
More Revelations
Solution-Focused RTI and Diverse Populations
Chapter Perspectives to Consider
Who Says the Square Peg Must Fit?
Systemic Perspective: The Hierarchical Leader of the School Leads the Pack
Classroom Perspective: Engaging Students in the Solution
Community Perspective: Getting Parents on Board as Experts
Solution-Focused RTI Applications
Chapter Perspectives to Consider
Guidelines for Solution-Focused RTI
Put on a New Set of Lenses in Order to See Students Differently
Suggestions for Beginning the Solution-Focused Approach to RTI
Advertising Success: An Exercise
Core Ideas in the Practice of Solution-Focused RTI
Solution-Focused RTI at a Glance
Chapter Perspectives to Consider
Targeted Instructional Interventions
Flipping the Coin in Education
It's Your Call
Conversation Template for Solution-Focused RTI
How the Process Works
Steps That Create a Solution-Focused Direction
Flipping the Coin: A 504 Meeting
504 Conversation for Success
504 Meeting Summary for Teachers-Sample
504 Meeting Summary for Teachers
Chapter Perspectives to Consider
Parent Conferences That Collaborate Instead of Intimidate: Level A
Focus on Solutions: Level A Conversation
Solution-Focused RTI Conversation: Level A
Exception Findings: Level A
Follow Up After Three Weeks
Chapter Perspectives to Consider
The Team Approach in Solution-Focused RTI: Level B
Focus on Solutions: Level B Conversation
Exception Observations: Level B
Solution-Focused RTI Conversation: Level B
Exception Findings: Level B
More Than a Meeting
Case Example: Leticia
Chapter Perspectives to Consider
Intensive Individualized Interventions
The Solution-Focused Assessment: Seeking Strengths and Abilities at Level C
Focus on What Works
Exception Observations: Level C
Make the Findings Exceptional
Solution-Focused RTI Conversation: Level C
A Solution-Focused IEP
Exception Findings: Level C
Solution-Focused Individualized Education Plan (IEP)
Chapter Perspectives to Consider
The Exceptional Elementary School
Tier I
Student Survey
Tier I in Action
Tier II
Learning Feedback
Tier II In Action
Tier III
Tier III in Action
RTI Documentation: Tier I Intervention
RTI Documentation: Tier II Intervention
RTI Documentation: Tier III Intervention
Chapter Perspectives to Consider
Intermediate School Solutions: Steps to the Future
Invisible Problems at Work
Transition Years
The School Counselor and Tier I
Tier II Counseling Interventions in RTI
Tier III Interventions
The Role of Refl ection in Solution-Focused RTI
Reprise
Chapter Perspectives to Consider
Opening the Door to Possibilities in High School
The Possibility Door Can Be Heavy
So Open a Familiar Door
Everyone Is Reachable and Teachable
A Different Kind of Data
Underdogs Get the Bone
Where Is the Key? Tier
Sometimes Opportunity's Door Has a Couple of Locks: Tier II
Stop, Think, and Dream About a Miracle
Keeping the Door Open to Opportunity
Chapter Perspectives to Consider
Getting Buy-In
Risk New Ways of Relating for Better Results
Start at the Top
Start with a Miracle by Asking for One
More Exercises to Create Buy-In
Proceed to Level A, B, and C
Stay Focused on Implementation
Buy-In Exercise: The Miracle School
The eBay Exercise
How to Focus Your Conversation on Solutions
Solution-Focused RTI at a Glance
Chapter Perspectives to Consider
Afterword
Reproducible Forms to Help with the RTI Process
Internet Resources
References
Index
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