Learning Intervention: Educational Casework and Responsive Teaching for Sustainable Learning

This book explores what learning intervention means in inclusive classroom settings. It provides educational professionals with the knowledge and skills they require to reflect on, and respond to students’ individual learning needs, and enables them to choose, implement and evaluate evidence-based strategies for learning intervention.

Taking an ecological perspective, and placing a capability framework at its core, the book considers how responsive teaching and educational casework combine to create intricate layers of learning intervention, and recommends tailored teaching and support strategies that can be used to address a wide variety of student learning needs. Learning intervention is thus understood in its broadest sense, and educational professionals are equipped with a range of interactive and adaptive strategies to support student learning. Chapters introduce and unpack numerous frameworks for practice, provide an extension to Response to Intervention models, and bring together key evidence-based ideas in an accessible format.

Effective teaching in response to clearly defined learning needs is central to the achievement of all students. Learning Intervention will provide future and current educational professionals with the structures, knowledge, insight and skills they need to respond effectively to each and every student.

Jeanette Berman is Associate Professor of Inclusive Education at the University of New England and Principal Fellow (Associate Professor) in Learning Intervention at Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Australia.

Lorraine Graham is foundation Professor of Learning Intervention at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. She is a Fellow of the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities, Australia.