ThinkStrat Science
ThinkStrat Science

... with the world and with difficult text. PEBC staff developers support science teachers in implementing inquiry-based science instruction that align with the National Science Education Standards. We recognize the role that literacy plays in the lives of scientists as they record data and share their ...
From Rats to RTI: A Look at Behaviorism and Reward Systems in
From Rats to RTI: A Look at Behaviorism and Reward Systems in

... The field of psychology and the field of education have long been connected. For centuries, researchers have experimented, analyzed, and theorized how people learn. Just as any domain evolves over time, different learning theories have waxed and waned in and out of popularity with the psychological ...
Instruction Handout
Instruction Handout

... Build upon and link new learning to students’ prior knowledge.  Utilize a K-W-l approach to access what students already know (K), what (W) they want to find out, and recall what they learned (L) as a means to address prior learning.  Pre-teach vocabulary and important concepts. Utilize a range of ...
Cooperative Learning
Cooperative Learning

... criterion-referenced and students looked after their self-interests or personal mastery or specified objectives  Cooperative goals emphasize collaboration and shared understanding on any task; evaluation is interdependence – a group must succeed for an individual to succeed. ...

Response to intervention

In education, response to intervention (commonly abbreviated RTI or RtI) is an approach to academic and behavioral intervention used in the United States to provide early, systematic, and appropriately intensive assistance to children who are at risk for or already underperforming as compared to appropriate grade- or age-level standards. RTI seeks to prevent academic and behavioral failure through universal screening, early intervention, frequent progress monitoring, and increasingly intensive research-based instruction or interventions for children who continue to have difficulty. RTI is a multileveled approach for aiding students that is adjusted and modified as needed.In terms of identifying students with specific learning disabilities (SLD), RTI was proposed as an alternative to the ability–achievement discrepancy model, which requires children to exhibit a significant discrepancy between their ability (often measured by IQ testing) and academic achievement (as measured by their grades and standardized testing). Methods to identify students with SLD have been controversial for decades and proponents of RTI claim that the process brings more clarity to the Specific Learning Disability (SLD) category of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA 2004), while opponents claim that RTI simply identifies low achieving students rather than students with learning disabilities.