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Teacher Help: Ideas for Working With Struggling Students
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Jim Wright presented to faculty from Longwood Jr. High School on 9, 17, and 23 January 2014 on the topic RTI for Secondary Schools: Teacher Tools to Help Struggling Learners.
- PPT in PDF Format: RTI for Secondary Schools: Teacher Tools to Help Struggling Learners
- Behavior Report Card Maker. This application creates custom teacher rating forms to easily track in-class behaviors on a daily basis.
Below are common teacher concerns about struggling junior-high students, along with sample solutions.
Strong Core Instruction:
Reading Comprehension: The student has limited understanding of what is read.
- Ask-Read-Tell: The student engages in pre-reading, reading, and post-reading activities to boost comprehension.
- Question Generation: The student summarizes main ideas of a passage on note-cards along with associated review-questions for use as a study tool.
Work Planning: The student lacks work-planning skills to complete assignments in an efficient and timely manner.
- Work-Plan Training. The student is trained in a planning sequence. Plan, Work, Evaluate, Adjust.
Non-Compliance: The student does not readily comply with teacher requests.
- 'Catalytic Comments': Here are 10 teacher communication tools that can help to increase student compliance.
Academic Survival Skills: The student lacks organization or other 'academic survival' skills necessary for school success.
- Academic Survival Skills Checklist Maker: The teacher uses this free application to break a global survival skill into a checklist of specific subskills. (See example.)
Poor Motivation: The student is unmotivated to complete schoolwork.
- Six Reasons Why Students are Unmotivated (and What to Do). Review the six most common reasons for poor motivation and how teachers can increase student engagement.
- How To: Create a Written Record of Classroom Interventions'
- Classroom Intervention Planning Sheet [in RTF/MS Word format]. This 1-page form is an organizer to help teachers to easily document Tier 1 (classroom) interventions.
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RTI Information Sources from the New York State Education Department and the NYS RTI TAC |
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New York State Education Department Guidance Document on RTI. Released in October 2010, this NYSED guidance document provides a guide to schools at any grade level in how to structure their RTI model and services. |
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NYS RTI Technical Assistance Center. This site provides resources and guidance for NYS schools on implementation of RTI. |
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NYSED 2008 RTI Guidance Memo. This memo presents the main points of the Regents Policy Framework on RTI for schools. |
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NYSED Part 100 Regulations on RTI. This subsection of Part 100.2 (NYSED regulations) describes expectations for RTI for all schools. |
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RTI Readiness Checklist. This checklist from the NYS RTI Technical Assistance Center allows schools to self-administer a quick 'RTI Readiness Check'. |
