RTI & Academics: Best Practices in Classroom Math Interventions

Schools often find it challenging to locate effective research-based math intervention ideas feasible for use in classrooms. This full-day workshop presents a series of interventions that elementary, middle, or high school teachers can use to support at-risk students who need targeted interventions in the development of math skills.



The training presents on the following topics:

  • A review of current research into ‘best practices’ in math instruction.
  • Evidence-based interventions to address specific math skills, including ‘number sense’, math computation fluency, ‘attack skills’ to solve word problems, and development of metacognition skills.
  • Ideas to motivate the disengaged math student.
  • Effective methods for monitoring students' progress on RTI intervention in various math subskills.

Participants also review a range of helpful Internet resources for school-based math assessment and intervention. Workshop interventions are tied to the multi-tier 'Response to Intervention' (RTI) framework now being widely adopted in schools across the nation.

 

NOTE: This workshop can be offered in an elementary-level version (grades K-6) or a secondary-level version (grades 7-12).

 


As a result of attending this workshop, participants will:
  • understand the key stages of student math skill development.
  • have a framework to identify student math difficulties in specific, measurable terms to aid in intervention selection.
  • be able to match effective instruction and intervention to targeted student math deficits.
  • know of Internet sources of free, high-quality math intervention and assessment materials.