Teacher+Training

What questions/challenges do you face in preparing teachers to implement RTI/AIS? Please capture the questions and discussion from your table below. Indicate a contact person if you are willing to be contacted by others to continue the discussion or share resources.
 * Teacher Training

How are you training teachers? How are you offering support?

We began the process to do a needs inventory -- ours is a studnet-based intervention team, and we are looking at what we are doing currently, and what the needs/gaps are. After we did that, we created an RTI community, did an overview, and held summer meetings to update the team.**

Q: Is there such a thing as staff development for a whole school? Classroom teachers sometimes have trouble with the concept, and it would be great to give them support. A: Sharon Hance of SETRC (Erie 1 BOCES) came to speak A: We had faculty meetings (internal) and, district-wide, we created teams of all staff (support, bus drivers, etc.) A: Michelle Botwell (Erie 2) came in to do trainings on tiered model/positive interventions, etc. A: 2 options: train entire staff, or train core group to turn key

Q: How do you keep them from all seeing it in a different perspective? How do you maintain consistancy? A: That happened, so we are doing after school sessions to repeat the message. We provide team support, resources, etc. It's hard when you have veterans and newer teachers.

Q: What are you giving teachers (resources) to help teachers when deciding what interventions to implement? A: PLC/software to look at data - we have ToSA positions to help individual teachers with one-on-one assistance. Collaborative groups (for curriculum maps, etc.) working well Q: Who got the ball rolling on that initiative? A: We were looking for a PLC model, and looking for a purpose. We used a product the teachers were already familiar with, and the curriculum coordinator, tech coordinator, and other admin did a lot of work with teachers over the summer. ToSAs are Title grant funded. We didn't do anything new, just what was already in place and formalized it with support. Q: Is that K-12? A: Yes. We haven't had -- it's exciting. This is the 3rd year of curriculum mapping, and the greatest thing was being able to share/see what othrs are doing. Teachers are now very comfortable looking/asking for help. Q: What resources are you providig? A: We have lots of web sites ([|interventioncentral.org]), and others. Q: Can you please list resources for others? Some of us are overwhelmed!

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