Best Practice for Math Intervention

Meeting the needs of struggling learners

Victoria O’NealK-12 Math Intervention Specialist Special Education

What is RtI? Core versus Intervention Intervention resources

Agenda

What is RtI?

Core versus Intervention

What is best practice for core instruction?

What is the difference between core instruction and intervention?

What is best practice for intervention?

Math instruction

Provide high-quality constructive learning experiences—5E model, for example

Provide mathematically rigorous learning experiences

Move between concrete, pictorial, and abstract at all levels of curriculum

Emphasize real-world problem solving

Incorporate frequent formative and summative assessment

Critical Features of Effective Instruction

Assess for need Focus on number sense—rational number

attributes and operations Provide direct, systematic, and explicit

instruction Use Concrete-Representational-Abstract

sequencing Give appropriate attention to procedural fluency

(facts and algorithms) Be consistent Address motivation and productive disposition

Best Practice for Intervention

Determine when you will do this intervention

Choose your groups—homogeneous, strategic

Plan the intervention schedule Prepare the materials Pretest (optional) 5-10 minutes fluency, ~20 minutes lesson Progress monitor Posttest

Intervention

ResourcesRtIInterventionSTAAR

AISD RtI website◦ http://www.austinschools.org/curriculum/RtI/

Assisting Struggling with Math◦ http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/practiceguide.aspx?sid

=2

Collected Resources and Research on Intervention◦ http://www.epsilen.com/crs/1011911

RtI Resources

Texas Early Math Inventories (K-2, K-5 sped)◦ http://3tiermathmodel.org/◦ Login: texas teacher Password: mathematics

Texas Math and Science Diagnostic System (3-11)◦ https://www.tmsds.org/◦ Contact Victoria O’Neal if you do not have a TMSDS login

Intervention Modules from Meadows Center (5-8)◦ http://www.epsilen.com/crs/1011427◦ http://www.epsilen.com/crs/1012499◦ http://www.epsilen.com/crs/1012676◦ http://www.epsilen.com/crs/1116059◦ Contact Marc Thrall if you do not have a Project Share

login

Intervention Resources

UT Dana Center Mathematics TEKS Toolkit (3-11)◦ http://www.utdanacenter.org/mathtoolkit/

Region IV Performance Assessments (3-11) ◦ http://www.escweb.net/tx_bm/math/

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (K-12)◦ http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

NCTM Illuminations◦ http://illuminations.nctm.org/

Intervention Resources

STAAR Vertical Alignment documents◦ http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/sp

ecial-ed/staaralt/frameworks/◦ http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/sp

ecial-ed/staaralt/vertalign/

STAAR information from TEA (K-12)◦ http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/sta

ar/

STAAR information from Lead4ward (K-12)◦ http://lead4ward.com/resources/

STAAR Resources

What I’ve done in the past…

What I can try this year…

Reflect on my own classroom…