Give educators user-friendly, step-by-step guidelines for implementing Response to Intervention in their classrooms! Designed around the best-selling book Response to Intervention: A Practical Guide for Every Teacher, this comprehensive multimedia presentation offers staff developers explicit tools to help teachers use multiple approaches to Response to Intervention (RTI)-including three-tier and four-tier models-to target instruction and improve learning. This all-in-one resource helps workshop leaders demonstrate how to use research-based interventions to individualize instruction, monitor individual student progress, and respond to specific student needs. Discussion points for workshop participants include: Documenting the existence or nonexistence of a learning disability Using RTI techniques to benefit students who are economically underprivileged and/or culturally and linguistically diverse Assuring treatment fidelity using research-supported curriculum Gathering data to make informed instructional decisions for students Presenting vignettes and examples that illustrate the problem-solving strengths of RTI techniques, this multimedia kit includes: The companion book, Response to Intervention, providing the foundational framework for implementing RTI in the classroom A 42-minute, content-rich VHS video that features William N. Bender and Cara Shores, along with administrators and teachers who demonstrate how RTI methods meet the needs of all students in inclusive classrooms A companion DVD with navigational menus and bullets for easy stop-and-search control of the video content A step-by-step Facilitator's Guide that connects the core content of the book to both the video and DVD and includes video/DVD segment prompts, workshop outlines, extended workshop activities, discussion questions, and key points
Lead workshops to help teachers connect best inclusive practices with standards! Based on the best-selling book More Inclusion Strategies That Work! this facilitator's guide offers techniques for maximizing the strengths of all students in inclusive classrooms while meeting curriculum standards for all learners. Staff developers and workshop leaders will find specific tools to facilitate book study groups, seminars, and professional development events that increase teachers' skills in using inclusion strategies on a daily basis to instruct students at differing cognitive, sensory, physical, behavioral, emotional, and social levels. This easy-to-use guidebook offers step-by-step instructions for leading focused discussions on: Applying inclusive strategies across the curriculum Using assessments that are sensitive to differences in students' abilities Varying the complexity and pace of lessons while achieving learning objectives Maintaining sound educational principles The chapter-by-chapter study guide features: Workshop activities Discussion questions Suggestions for practical applications Chapter summaries Handouts and overheads Resources for extending learning Sample agendas for half-day, one-day, and two-day workshops A workshop evaluation form The Facilitator's Guide to More Inclusion Strategies That Work! is ideal for staff developers or anyone leading professional training for groups of any size-pairs, small workshops, or large seminars.
This easy-to-access comprehensize manual and interactive CD-ROM gives you all the information and organization you need in a fill-in-the-blanks format to create a safety plan that will never be out of date.CD-ROM is PC and MAC compatible. Making Schools Safe for Students is available separately for Making Schools Safe for Students
