Multi-Tiered Systems of Support On-Line Course: Session 4

Session 4. Multi-Tiered Assessment and Intervention for Students with Significant Academic Needs [2 hours, 15 minutes]

Contents and Brief Description

Student Learning and Independence
Characteristics of Effective Classrooms
The Positive Academic Supports & Services Model
Differentiated Instruction and Assistive Technology
Remediation, Accommodation, and Modification
Strategic Academic Interventions

IDEA and ESEA require multi-tiered systems of services and supports for students demonstrating significant academic challenges. However, from this academic perspective, this begins with effective, differentiated instruction that is supported by well-designed curricular materials, and that focuses on helping students to become independent learners.

This Session describes the characteristics of these components, especially emphasizing those related to differentiated instruction, remediation, accommodations, modifications, and assistive supports. These are organized into the Positive Academic Supports and Services (PASS) model, and specifically applied to the areas of literacy and mathematics (with many guiding resources provided).

The Session continues, as it relates to significantly struggling academic learners, by applying the functional assessment process from the earlier sessions, to strategic and intensive interventions that are available in literacy and mathematics—including the best ways to link these interventions to the root cause analysis process.

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