"There is a difference between not knowing and
not knowing YET." -Sheila Tobias
Intervention/MTSS is a process that incorporates assessments, teaching strategies, and resources to help students learn. Through a variety of assessment techniques, teachers determine student abilities and their needs. Then the Intervention Specialist will design and deliver instruction to meet the individual needs of students. Progress is continually monitored, charted, and adjusted as necessary.
Our District goal is to "Teach Them One and All" and Intervention Specialist are highly focused on individual skill gaps and making sure each student is successful and understands:
"What am I learning, Why is it Important, and How will I know I have learned it"
Intervention occurs two ways in the classroom through the "push in" process or students may be pulled out to a separate location. Instruction may be small group or individual, depending on the students' needs. Intervention specialists collaborate with each child's classroom teacher to develop the best program.
Tami Bahn
Tips for parents to help children feel confident in dealing with numbers and number tasks:
- Create a coin jar where you toss spare change and give your child the regular chore of sorting and counting these coins (with your help) on a regular basis.
- Keep a master family calendar and have your child mark off days, count the days until up coming events, and keep track of birthdays.
- Encourage your child to help sort the cans and boxes in your pantry by size or weight.
- Include your child in simple cooking activities and model using measuring cups or spoons; describe what you are doing as you use these measuring tools.
- Play counting games when you are in the car or out for walk; pick a "magic number" and challenge your child to spot that many dogs, then the magic number of big trees, or red cars, etc.
Fun Educational Links
Starfall.com: Starfall is a reading website for children in kindergarten through second grade. The website provides independent activities that focus on phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
Cookie.com: This website provides users with a multitude of resources from games to videos, stories worksheets and crafts. The website is geared towards all elementary levels and subjects. It is a great tool to use with academic vocabulary.
Literactive.com: Literactive is a reading website geared toward students in the lower elementary grades. Registering with this website is free and unlocks guided reading materials, learning activities, and independent practice sheets.
Prekinders.com: While Prekinders is geared towards the youngest learners, it provides a variety of vocabulary themes and resources that are useful in the ESL classroom.
ESLGamesPlus.com: This website provides printables, flashcards, board and electronic games, and other resources designed specifically for English language learners.
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