Developing Effective Learners: Rti Strategies for Student Success

Proactively address your students&; diverse needs, using multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) and response to intervention (RTI). Developing Effective Learners details how to respond to students&; academic, emotional, and behavioral challenges; embrace learning differences; and create inclusive classroom environments. Readers will learn how to use tiered RTI instructional strategies to support continuous improvement. This book also offers tiered lessons, practical resources, instructional and staff scenarios, student vignettes, and responsive evidence-based interventions all designed to help simplify the intervention process.

Develop an RTI model

Benefits

• Discover the best research-based instructional strategies and review the supporting evidence.
• Better understand RTI education and how differentiated instruction can improve students&; literacy and math skills.
• Learn how to plan multi-tiered grade-level instruction across disciplines.
• Receive guidance on how to implement tiered intervention to meet students&; learning needs.
• Find out how to create a supportive classroom culture that helps close achievement gaps and drives academic success.

Toby J. Karten, a staff developer, instructional coach, educational consultant, author, adjunct professor, and inclusion specialist, has taught populations of learners ranging from preschool to graduate level. She has collaborated with administrators, staff, students, and their families at local, national, and international school sites and educational conferences as an invited speaker and inclusion coach. Academic degrees include an undergraduate degree in special education from Brooklyn College, a master of science in special education from the College of Staten Island, a supervisory degree from Georgian Court University, and an honorary doctorate from Gratz College. Ms. Karten has been recognized by the Council for Exceptional Children and the N.J. Dept. of Education as an exemplary educator, receiving two Teacher of the Year awards. She is an adjunct professor with Monmouth University, College of New Jersey, and La Salle University. Ms. Karten's ongoing professional goal is to help learners to achieve successful inclusion experiences in schools and ultimately life.