Week 7 & 8: Ten Questions about RTI

1. Why would a school do RTI and another not do RTI?
: There is so much extra works. Some teachers who have old teaching styles might be comfortable in their ways and does not want to change it to the other way.

2. Are the ties a statewide thing or the basic principles?
: It is generally a basic principle and sometimes state special education can be added to the tier. Each state will determine how RTI looks better for their state.

3. Why wouldn't all teachers want to do RTI?
: It is beaucse for some teachers, they do not prefer to consider percepton of time consuming tasks and they also do not want to replace traditional ideas to the new methods.

4. How can parents collaborate with teachers to make RTI happen?
: Teachers should concern about children and consider about children's abilities. Schools can do home visits and make newsletters for parents because family members can give important information about children's strengths and challenges.

5. Do parents get open access to their students' records?
: Yes! Teachers observe and consider about children weekly or biweekly with making graphs or charts and they discuss about that with other teachers, administrators, and parents.

6. Is this just for reading?
: No, it isn't. It is a model for many different areas, too. It can be accepted by behavior, mathematic, and so on.

7. Does this apply to behavior?
: Yes, it does. For example, Colorado State Department supports children's behavioral area. It calls "Positive Behavioral Support (PBS)."

8. If it's a practice, how come the government doesn't fund it?
: The government funds for special education but RTI is not special education. Even though the government recommand or put it in requirement, they do not fund for RTI.

9. How does this differ from tracking?
: Tracking is placing someone forever on a "slow," or " average" class like segregation and racist. While RTI makes it better, "tracking" makes you stuck.

10. Seems to require lots more staff. Does that hold it back?
: It does not require more or lots of staff.  More people are needed for accessing children aren't true.