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It's no secret that caregivers, parents, students, and educators alike are all feeling the effects of remote learning and the COVID-19 pandemic.
How can you as an educator implement Tier 1 strategies to address, encourage, or improve your students behavior and learning?
We'll share nine effective Tier 1 teacher strategies that can help you...

Engage your students; and

Build a more effective learning environment

... whether you're instructing remotely or in the classroom.
Table of Contents

What Are Tier 1 Instructional Strategies?

9 Tier 1 Strategies to Implement in Your Classroom

How Often Should You Use the Above Tier 1 Strategies in the Classroom?

Improving the Quality of Tier 1 Instruction

Learn More About Tier 1 Teacher Strategies With Illuminate Education

What Are Tier 1 Instructional Strategies?

Best practices at Tier 1 are designed to address students achievement and growth as a result

of effective initial instruction and include:

is considered the key component of tiered instruction, and is where all students receive instruction within an evidence-based, scientifically researched core program.

The Tier 1 instructional program is typically synonymous with the core reading or math curriculum that is often aligned with individual state standards.

9 Tier 1 Strategies to Implement in Your Classroom

#1: Prioritize Instructional Support

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many families and educators were navigating the abrupt transition to remote learning, and many found it very difficult to come up with a consistent curriculum across all of those weeks.
The real challenge this year is knowing and acknowledging that there is a little bit of burnout for not only the children and the parents, but educators as well from continued remote or hybrid instruction. As educators, the key to combating that burnout is through:

1. Engaging with the passion you had as an educator when you started in the field; and

2. Figuring out how to use some of these technological tools to do remote instruction in new ways or in ways that mimic some of the things that work very well in a whole class setting

For example: These are just a few examples of ways that an educator may vary the type of engagement that students have with their class. But, in order for any of these strategies to be successful, it's essential for educators to maintain an engaging, fun, and interactive teaching style regardless of the subject.
One of the biggest things to remember is that there is no replacement for strong curricula.

#2: Give Academic Praise and Feedback

In any kind of learning situation, the adult is usually providing corrective feedback if something's not quite right or the student needs additional support.
In this Tier 1 strategy, the adult, or in this case, the educator, should also be noticing when a student is performing admirably, or completing skills correctly.
When you think about learning a new skill, it's rare that that learning happens right away; most of the time, a new skill develops in small steps.
For example, think about when you see a child start to move to take their first steps. You likely celebrated each little milestone it took to get to those first steps. The pulling up onto a table, standing alone, the first few wobbly steps, and then, finally, walking over to you on their own. That excitement and attention likely made them very excited, too, and encouraged them to keep moving forward.
Continue to embed this same approach in your classroom, just as your students have experienced as they first learned to add or subtract or spell.
Educators will want to balance correction with praise for learning academic content at a ratio of 3:1.
It's important to provide feedback at the level the class is at, using a shaping procedure (successive approximations).

When you look at remote instruction, however, this approach can become difficult. A teacher's attention may be divided between all of the children's individual video squares making it challenging to interact and communicate with children fluently.
Think about incorporating more personal communications, whether by text or email, to continue to share academic praise and feedback.
Another very important thing to remember is that caregivers (ie. parents, grandparents, nannies, babysitters, older siblings) are the allies of educators in a remote learning environment.

Keep in mind that every child's and every caregiver's home situation is different. It may be that a caregiver is experiencing burnout from technical difficulties or not understanding how to help their child with a specific assignment.
Taking the time to share a child's successes with their caregiver may go a long way in motivating them to continue supporting the child and their academic needs.
#3: Implement Academic Response Opportunities
Educators will naturally implement academic response opportunities whenever they can to try and get students to:

Apply the material they have learned in new situations

Extend what they already know; or

Demonstrate what they know in a new interaction or a new assignment

Academic response opportunities in classrooms often work well because a teacher has the whole class in front of them and can be walking around and checking in and calling on students to participate. When a student is in a remote instruction environment, however, it can be easier for those who don't want to participate to hide themselves in a sea of other screens.
Children might disengage by:
To help combat this, educators can let the children lead the conversation and let them do the majority of the discussion.

This can also be a very helpful tool in assessing whether or not the class truly understands or grasps the concept that is being taught.
To implement academic response opportunities in a remote setting, an educator may:

Maximize opportunities for children to make academic responses

Use whiteboards, surveys, peer-pairing

Distribute opportunities across the whole class; or

Assign independent work for strong concepts

#4: Provide Major Concept Summaries

If you look at student achievement, there can sometimes be a step back because they aren't getting the academic repetition that they are used to getting throughout the whole school year of practicing these academic concepts.
With the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been more variability in the academic reps that students are getting due to the inconsistency of their learning environment.
It may be that you'll see some children that got just as many reps as they would have gotten had they been in class from March until June.

A teacher may also see some children who weren't able to get the reps that they needed - through no fault of their own - due to:

Because of this, it may be that the gap between the students who are returning after a summer break may be larger than what we would typically see given a typical school year.

To address this gap, educators should continuously summarize the concept, skills, or key points frequently - even going overboard to make sure whoever is the furthest behind with these concepts can follow.

This approach can be particularly important during remote instruction. Repeating concepts frequently and asking the children to repeat back what the key concepts or the key points were can help check for understanding.
This helps children build a scaffold of important information that they can use to grow upon.
Looking for gaps in completed work is a way for educators to do some formative assessment and see if there's an area of the concept that needs more remediation or discussion.

#5: Enforce Structure, Rules, and Routines

It would be impossible to shield students and young children from the stress or the anxiety that has been present in our world since the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

What can educators do to help children cope? Understand that students are coming from over a year of unpredictability. Educators can make their daily routines more predictable by:

Having clear structure

Providing clear routines; and

Giving explicit directions for how things are to be done and completed

Rules should be positively phrased and tailored to activity.
In turn, students should experience reduced anxiety because they know what to expect and what is expected of them. For example:

1. Implement some standard procedures at the beginning and the end of every class lesson, whether in person or online, so students can link the two together.

2. Communicate the schedule for the upcoming school year.

That routine becomes predictable for the student and aids in helping them transition back into the typical school schedule.
#6: Offer Attention and Praise

Offering personalized feedback (whether in a classroom setting or noticing positive behaviors, like balancing stress at home) is a key Tier 1 strategy.

Acknowledging a student's good behavior or work and commenting on it while balancing that attention across all of the students in your class is really important.
Educators can take that praise a step further by sharing it with the student's caregiver as well.
#7: Remember the Importance of Effective vs. Ineffective Requests

On that note, effective requests to guide students and their behavior are essential.
The clearer and more direct in the phrasing educators give to students, the better off the kids are going to be.
If it's online or remote learning, effective requests are really important in written instructions.
When making requests to students to correct behavior, some ineffective requests include:

Bad commands

Commands issued when it is unclear if the student is paying attention

Commands that contain multiple or vague steps

Those issued as a question or contain unclear phrasing

Behavior that is repeated without consequence

Instead, try these effective requests to redirect behavior:
Consequences for both compliance and noncompliance (ie. repeat command) are shared, following the command

#8: Engage in Planned Ignoring

It's safe to assume that the return to school is going to be difficult for some students as they'll need to learn the necessary rules, structures, and routines again.

To help ease the transition, planned ignoring is a good strategy to use. Planned ignoring is a case where an educator chooses their battles.

You wouldn't allow a student to exhibit disrespectful behaviors to you, swear in the classroom, or be aggressive. But, if a child is complaining or fidgeting, ignoring those smaller, menial behaviors could be a useful strategy.

Continue to compliment, notice, and acknowledge the good things that they're doing.
To reiterate, planned ignoring could mean: If in a remote setting, this could mean utilizing the mute button or deferring differential attention.
#9: Utilize Premack Contingencies and Transitional Warnings

Students' stamina after returning to school from remote learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic may not be as strong as when they were attending school in person regularly.
Using premack contingencies means putting less preferable activities before a more preferable activity. For example:
Premack contingencies can be useful when we think about our lessons that we are teaching students across different grade levels, up until 12th grade.
In a remote learning setting, this might look more like: These examples may help students stay on task because they know there's something good coming after the activity.
Premack contingencies puts activities in the right order, placing academic activities first, and help children know about and prepare for transitions or changes in routine.

How Often Should You Use the Above Tier 1 Strategies in the Classroom?

There's always going to be a time when a teacher is going to have to give corrective feedback to a student, but if other consequences, like office visits, are being used frequently, that's often a signal that the Tier 1 interventions are probably not working as well as they should be.

If they were working well, there wouldn't be a reason for the student to misbehave and seek attention, since they should already be receiving that attention through positive strategies.
To reiterate, if the...

Praise and encouragement

Rewards and celebrations; and

Empathy, attention, listening, encouragement, and good teaching

... strategies are implemented correctly, there should be less of a need to use:

Logical consequences

Ignore, distract, redirect

Clear limits, class rules, and consistent follow-through

Strategies to Use Liberally
Examples of tier 1 interventions to use liberally include:

1. Prioritizing instructional support

2. Giving academic praise and feedback

3. Implementing academic response opportunities

4. Providing major concept summaries

5. Enforcing structure, rules, and routines

As well as offering attention and praise when appropriate.

Strategies to Use Sparingly
Examples of tier 1 interventions to use sparingly include:

1. Enforcing structure, rules, and routines (when appropriate)

2. Remembering the importance of effective vs. ineffective requests

3. Engaging in planned ignoring

4. Utilizing premack contingencies and transitional warnings

Improving the Quality of Tier 1 Instruction

If you were to ask, "What's the biggest thing they can do to improve their schools this next year?", many schools would likely answer that it is improving the quality of Tier 1 instruction.

Why? The relationship between the teacher and student and what is happening in the classroom is most important.

What Does it Mean to Have High-Quality Tier 1 Instruction?
Having high-quality Tier 1 instruction starts with a valid and reliable curriculum that you can use for your students.
It should be consistent and standards-based and of the quality that we need it to be, really addressing the needs of our students.

It also means differentiation. We have to make sure that we're differentiating instruction within Tier 1 (rather than push some students who aren't learning into a Tier 2 or 3 intervention).

Strengthening Tier 1 Instruction
One of the best things you can do to strengthen Tier 1 instruction is:

Use the fact that some students are struggling

Identify why they're struggling; and

Build that into the way in which we're instructing for all students

Formative assessment practice is a huge part of improving Tier 1 instruction.

In fact, if you had to define it very simply, formative assessment is a mechanism to inform teachers about what their students need, so that they can pivot their instruction to better meet their needs.
PLCs are also a huge part of improving Tier 1 instruction.
Teachers get to share about what's working really well with students, and you can utilize the collective strategies from the group and implement them into your own classroom to make the entire Tier 1 instruction experience stronger for students.

Lastly, when you have students who are in need of a Tier 2 or Tier 3 intervention, or students who are in a Special Ed situation, think about those as innovation labs for Tier 1 instructional improvements.
They shouldn't be the places you send students who need something different.
It should be the places where you send students to learn about what helps students learn better, and the best of those practices can get infused back into Tier 1 instruction to keep strengthening and growing the quality.

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The video below shows the calculation flipbooks being used:

Calculation Flipbooks from I See Maths on Vimeo.

Coloured 100-squares help children to count in 2s, 5s or recognise the size of numbers.

Base-5/10 Number Tracks help children to recognise the size of numbers around the sub-base 5.

Number Rack is an adjustable online abacus with base-5 colouring, helping children to instantly recognise quantities.

The Fractions Cards can be printed used used to compare fractions, show equivalence and model adding and subtracting fractions.

Visual Representations Map outlines how images and resources can be used to build understanding in Reception-Y6.

Big Ideas of Mathematics outlines the key concepts and ideas that can be explored in each curriculum strand for Y1-Y6.

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Calculation Flipbooks allow children to see written methods for calculation modelled step-by-step. By clicking through the pages, each new step of a calculation is shown. The video below shows the calculation flipbooks being used: Calculation Flipbooks from I See Maths on Vimeo. Coloured 100-squares help children to count in 2s, 5s or recognise the size of numbers.

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Last week a new app called Overviewer got a lot of buzz on social media. The app lets you use your phone as a document camera. Overviewer isn't the only way to use your phone as a document camera as I'll explain below.

And lest you think this only works for documents, last week I used the methodology below to show my online students how to seat RAM into a motherboard.

Something to hold your phone

I have a simple "goose neck" ring light and cell phone holder that I bought on Amazon years ago. It clamps to my desk and is flexible enough to let me easily position my cell phone over a document or over anything else that I want students to see in Zoom. You could also use a camera tripod that has a cell phone holder mounted to it. I've even seen people just pin their phones between heavy textbooks with the camera sticking out (it works, but it's hard to position things properly).

Overviewer app

Overviewer is a free app for iPhones and iPads. The app uses your camera and mirrors whatever your camera picks up into your Zoom meeting. The mirroring can happen via Airplay or via a Lightening Bolt cable. I prefer to use the cable as it is far less likely to drop the mirrored connection than Airplay is. Once Overviewer is running you can share your iPhone screen in Zoom using the standard screen-sharing options. Here's a video overview of the process.

Vysor

Unfortunately, Overviewer is only available for iPhone and iPad users. However, there is an option for using an Android phone as a document camera.

To use your Android phone as a document camera you'll need a way to mirror your phone's screen to your computer. Vysor is the tool I use for that purpose. Vysor is available to install for free on Windows and Mac computers. Once it's installed you can mirror your Android phone's screen through a USB cable. I've been using Vysor since 2018 and it has worked flawlessly for me on all of my Windows and Mac computers.

With Vysor installed and running my Android phone screen appears on my computer. So if I turn on my camera, whatever the camera sees is what appears on my computer's screen. Then in Zoom I use the screen-sharing option to show my mirrored phone screen. Google Meet users and Microsoft Teams users can do the same.

My process for using my Android phone as a document camera is outlined in this four minute video.

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By Brandon Cline, Divinity School and Teaching Consultant at the Chicago Center for Teaching

The Power of Questions

While asking questions may seem a simple task, it is perhaps the most powerful tool we possess as teachers. If we ask the right question of the right student at the right moment we may inspire her to new heights of vision and insight. A good question can excite, disturb, or comfort, and eventually yield an unexpected bounty of understanding and critical awareness. But even apart from such serendipitous moments, question-asking serves many functions that make it the stock in trade of the skillful teacher.

Good questions can:

Motivate student learning and fuel curiosity

Foster intellectual development and stimulate critical thinking

Guide discussion and shape a positive learning environment

While mastering the art of asking good questions is a lifelong pursuit, the following are four steps you can take to begin improving your question-asking practices.

Step One: Perform a Question-Asking Audit

Multiple observational studies have found that as many as ninety percent of teachers' questions focus on low-level cognitive skills such as memorization and recall. Moreover, we may be unaware of our overreliance on this level of questioning. Therefore, the first step to asking better questions is to perform a question-asking audit to assess the kinds of questions you tend to ask in class. For instance, ask a colleague to observe your class and document your questions. Or record a class session and write down the questions you asked. Afterwards, categorize the questions according to Bloom's taxonomy, using the results to evaluate the diversity and balance of your questioning practices. By periodically performing such audits, you can measure the development of your technique.

Step Two: Build a Question-Asking Tool Kit

By considering the different kinds of questions you might have asked in your audit, in addition to those you did, you begin to build a question-asking tool kit. A question-asking tool kit is a list of the kinds of questions you might ask your students in any situation, categorized in a useful form. Taxonomies of question-types abound, but developing your own inventory will furnish you with a useful repertoire from which to draw. Below is a sample inventory based on Bloom's taxonomy; you can find others among the resources at the end of this guide.

Sample Question Tool Kit Based on Bloom's Taxonomy

Lowest to Highest

Cognitive Skills

Example Questions

Requires students to recognize or recall information.

How far is Rome from the Mediterranean Sea?

What are the species of ancient rhetoric?

Comprehension

Requires students to restate without verbatim repetition or to cite examples, thereby demonstrating deeper understanding.

Explain the process of mitosis in your own words.

Can you give some examples of deliberative rhetoric?

Application

Requires students to solve a problem by applying their learning to a new situation.

Look at the following paragraph. As described in your reading from Quintillian, what rhetorical features of prooemia (introductions) can you identify?

Select a series of chords and play them in a chromatic sequence.

Analysis

Requires students to break down a concept or diagnose a situation into constituent parts, and to explain their interrelationships. Questions of comparison or analogy ("How is X like Z?") may also be classified here.

What factors led to the persecution of early Christians?

Break down the arguments that the author uses to support his hypothesis.

How does the artist use shapes and color to emphasize melancholy in this painting?

Compare Philippians 2:6-11 with Mark 10:42-45. How do these authors use the figure of Jesus as a model of humility?

Synthesis

Requires students to use original thought to creatively solve a new problem. Requires students to put together material for themselves into a new whole or in a new form.

How would you design an experiment to show the effect of education on income?

How would you arrange Bloom's taxonomy in light of new research in cognitive science?

How would you compare Augustine's and Luther's understandings of the relationship between church and state (analysis)? Based on the strengths and weaknesses of their ideas, what understanding of that relationship would you propose (synthesis)?

Evaluation

Requires students to make judgments, according to appropriate criteria, about the value of a given work, idea, method, proposal, etc.

How well did the composition exhibit the principle of harmony?

How internally consistent is Augustine in making his case?

What is the value of Wikipedia as a knowledge resource?

If drugs were legalized, what would be the implications for public health?

You will find that other tool-kits use different terminology or add categories that either supplement Bloom's-such as hypothetical questions (What if Constantine had been defeated at the Milvian bridge?), challenge questions (Why do you think that? What counter-evidence might you cite?), and affective questions (Was there anything that made you uncomfortable? Why?)-or relate to class process (How does that comment connect to what was previously said? What themes have emerged from today's discussion?). When you study such typologies, make them your own by coming up with categories that make sense to you and listing example questions from your own discipline.

Tips for Using Your Tool Kit:

1. Always keep your tool kit handy. If you make your typology simple and easy to remember, it can remain in the back of your mind as class progresses, allowing you to mentally match possible questions to the needs of the moment.

2. Use a lot of different tools. Aim to vary the types and levels of the questions you ask. This will deepen discussion and improve critical thinking. As Mark Twain put it, "If your only tool is a hammer, pretty soon all the world appears to be a nail."

3. Use the right tool for the right job. Choose the right kind of question at the right moment for your learning goals. Just as one naturally considers the order in which each class segment falls within one's teaching plan, so one should consider how each segment might be best explored.

Step Three: Cultivate Your Question-Asking Style

Masterful question-asking attends not only to what questions one is asking, but also to how one is asking them. Question-asking style encompasses such elements as the phrasing and word choice of questions, non-verbal communication, and reaction time to student responses. These can have an enormous impact on engagement and student learning, and the skillful teacher will use them mindfully to regulate classroom dynamics.

Phrasing and word choice

Want to create a break or mark a transition? Ask a factual or summative question to mark where discussion has gone.

Want to invite more participation? Use your word choice to increase student involvement. For instance, "Charles, give us your conclusion, please," offers little leeway to decline an invitation to speak, thus putting students on the defensive; on the other hand, "Charles, would you be willing to offer your conclusion?" is much less agonistic. Inserting "wriggle room" clauses ("That's a tough one, Fred-at least for me-but can you get us started?") can also reduce anxiety and encourage participation.

Want to encourage interactivity? Design questions that relate a comment to previous contributions or build on what others have said. ("Mark, would you agree with Lucy on this point?" "How does that comment relate to what Jack said?") Phrased this way, your questions encourage students to listen to each others' responses and to begin making their own connections.

Want to heighten student engagement? Use more challenge questions ("Why do you think that? What evidence supports your hypothesis?") or deploy a series of short, quickly answered informational questions to speed up the tempo or prepare for more involved questions.

Want to regulate the mood? Make the discussion cool down or heat up by changing the level of abstraction and personalization in your questions. "Do you believe in abortion in cases of rape or incest?" is far more emotive than "What political, economic, and ethical factors affect the national debate on abortion?" In some cases you may wish to heighten the personal involvement of participants; in other cases you may wish to encourage detachment.

Want to give closure to a segment or session? Ask students a generalizing or summative question. ("If you had to pick out three themes that surfaced most often in our discussion today, what would they be?")

Emotional tone and non-verbals

Factors such as voice level, facial expressions, bodily posture, and eye contact can profoundly affect the interpretation of one's questions. A simple question like "What do you think?" can communicate hostility or geniality depending on the questioner's emphasis and demeanor. A loud question delivered with sweeping gestures can stir the pot, while one deliberately and softly spoken can calm the room and invite self-reflection. While the needs of the moment may dictate which you choose, your question-asking will be most successful if you strive to use your tone, facial expressions, and gestures to communicate a sense of spirited inquiry rather than of student interrogation.

Think Time (aka Wait Time)

Think time is the amount of time a teacher waits for a response to a question. While the interval may feel like an eternity to the teacher, studies have documented that the average teacher's wait-time is-remarkably-less than one second. Instead, get in the habit of pausing at least five seconds (and sometimes more) after both a question and the student response. According to research conducted by Columbia University, when teachers waited at least five seconds after asking a question, students lengthened their responses, backed up their claims with evidence, and became less teacher-directed and more peer-directed.

Step Four: Further Refine Your Technique

Refine your technique with these quick tips:

Prepare questions in advance. Remember, it takes time to design effective questions. As you prepare for class, brainstorm questions and questioning strategies. As you come up with a list, think through the range of possible outcomes and responses to your questions. This will help you feel more prepared to let discussion flow while maintaining a sense of overall control. A good list will also ensure that you ask many different kinds of questions over the course of the class.

Think about the sequence of your questions. No matter which sequence you choose (simple to complex, general to specific), it is helpful to have a game plan in mind. For instance, you may want to ask informational questions at the beginning of a unit to "prime the discussion pump" and to uncover material from which later synthetic questions will draw.

Come up with alternatives to "Are there any questions?" Students may feel discouraged from responding to "Are there any questions" for a host of reasons: peer pressure, not wanting to appear inadequate, fearing to seemingly criticize the teacher, etc. To overcome such resistance, consider rephrasing: "Now, I'm sure you have some questions", or "That was complicated. What did I leave out?" Moreover, such moments are prime opportunities for students to demonstrate their understanding as a check of their learning. Instead of "Are there any questions?", try a more proactive "Why did I substitute this value in this equation?" or "How would you summarize the argument I just advanced?"

Debrief yourself after each class. Make notes on the more or less successful questioning tactics of the day's session. Which questions generated the liveliest engagement? Which interactions did not go well, and why?

Ask questions you don't know the answers to. Students often enter college with the notion that asking questions somehow reveals a failure of understanding. Asking questions you don't know the answers to is one way of communicating to your students that you value risk-taking and good questions just as much as "right" answers. Modeling the process of inquiry for your students sometimes involves venturing into uncharted territory and thinking through solutions with your students that may lead to dead ends!

Keep billy club questioning to a minimum. As C. Roland Christensen notes, questions can be shepherd's staffs or a billy-clubs. While question-asking may be used to check who has completed the reading or to compel student attention, overreliance on questions as an enforcement mechanism can sour classroom ecology and communicate the wrong message about the value and purpose of questions.

Selected Resources

1. C. Roland Christensen, "The Discussion Leader in Action: Questioning, Listening, and Response", Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership (Boston: Harvard Business School, 1991), 99-122. A sensitive and quite helpful approach to the "triptych" of discussion leading: questioning, listening, and responding.

2. Thomas Kasulis, "Questioning", The Art and Craft of Teaching (Edited by Margaret Morganroth Gullette; Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1984), 38-48. Especially good on the procedural and personal dimensions of question-asking.

3. Barbara Gross Davis, "Asking Questions", Tools for Teaching (2nd ed; Jossey-Bass, 2009), 82-90. Helpful quick summation of research with further references.

4. "Questions and Questioning Techniques", Teaching Pedagogy to Graduate Student Instructors (Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment, University of Texas at Austin), 109-26. A thorough presentation loaded with tips; especially strong on Bloom's taxonomy.

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By Brandon Cline, Divinity School and Teaching Consultant at the Chicago Center for Teaching While asking questions may seem a simple task, it is perhaps the most powerful tool we possess as teachers. If we ask the right question of the right student at the right moment we may inspire her to new heights of vision and insight.

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Are you looking for math interventions for your students? If so, we have you covered. In this article, we will discuss, in detail, math interventions that you can use in your classroom today.

Math Computation: Encourage Math Learners to Draw to Clarify Understanding

Making a drawing of a word problem is one easy heuristic tool that learners can use to help them find the solution. A benefit of the drawing tactic is that it can reveal to the instructor any learner misunderstandings about solving the word problem. The instructor hands out a worksheet containing at least six-word problems to introduce learners to the drawing strategy. The instructor explains to learners that making a picture of a word problem sometimes makes that problem clearer and easier to solve. The instructor and learners then independently create drawings of each of the problems on the worksheet. Next, the learners show their drawings for each problem, explaining each drawing and its relation to the word problem. The instructor also participates, explaining his or her drawings to the class or group. Then learners are directed independently to make drawings as an intermediate problem-solving step when they are faced with challenging word problems.

Math Computation: Improving Performance in Math Through a 4-Step Problem-Solving Approach

Learners can perform better on applied math problems if they use an efficient 4-step plan that includes understanding the problem, devising a plan, carrying out the plan, and looking back. (1) Understand the Problem. To fully grasp the problem, the learner may restate the problem in his or her words, note key information, and find missing info. (2) Devise a Plan. In mapping out a tactic to solve the problem, the learner may make a table or translate the verbal problem into an equation. (3) Carry Out the Plan. The learner implements the steps in the plan, showing work and checking work for each step. (4) Look Back. The learner checks the results. If the answer is presented as an equation, the learner puts the results in words and ensures that the answer addresses the question posed in the word problem.

Math Computation: Boost Fluency Through Explicit Time-Drills

Explicit time drills are a method to boost learners’ rate of responding on math-fact worksheets. The instructor hands out the worksheet. Learners are told that they will have 3 minutes to work on problems on the sheet. The instructor starts the stopwatch and tells the learners to start work. After the first minute in the 3- minute span, the instructor’ calls time’, stops the stopwatch, and tells the learners to underline the last number written and to put their pencils in the air. Then learners are told to resume work, and the instructor restarts the stopwatch. This process is repeated after minutes 2 and 3. After the 3 minutes, the instructor collects the learner worksheets. Explicit time drills work best on math facts requiring a small number of steps. They are less effective on more complex math facts. Also, a less flexible version of this intervention is to use time-prompts while learners are working on math facts to quicken their response rate. At the end of each minute of seatwork, the instructor can call the time and have learners draw a line under the item that they are working on when that minute expires.

Math Computation: Motivate With ‘Errorless Learning’ Worksheets

Reluctant learners can be motivated to practice math number problems to build computational fluency when given worksheets that include an answer key displayed at the top of the page. In this incarnation of an ‘errorless learning’ approach, the learner is directed to complete math facts as quickly as possible. If the learner comes to a number problem that they cannot solve, the learner is encouraged to find the problem and its correct answer in the key at the top of the page and write it in. Such speed drills build computational fluency and prompt learners’ ability to visualize and use a mental number line. Consider turning this task into a ‘speed drill.’ The learner is given a kitchen timer and instructed to set the timer for each drill’s predetermined period. The learner completes as many problems as possible before the timer rings. The learner then graphs the number of problems computed each day on a time-series graph, attempting to better their last score.

Math Computation: How to Activate Academic Responding

Research shows that when instructors use specific techniques to motivate their classes to engage in higher active and accurate academic responses, learner learning rates will go up. Here are two ideas to obtain an increased academic response on math tasks. First, break longer assignments into shorter tasks with performance feedback given after each shorter ‘chunk.’ Breaking longer assignments into smaller segments also allows the instructor to praise struggling learners for work completion and effort, providing an additional ‘natural’ reinforcer. Next, let learners respond to easier practice items orally rather than in written form to speed up the rate of correct responses.

Math Homework: Motivate Learners Through Reinforcers, Interesting Assignments, Homework Planners, and Self-Monitoring

Improve learners’ homework completion rate and quality by using reinforcers, motivating ‘real-life’ assignments, a homework planner, and learner self-monitoring. (1) Reinforcers: Allow learners to earn a small reward (e.g., additional free time) when they turn in all homework assignments for the week. (2) ‘Real-life’ Assignments: Make homework meaningful by connecting concepts being taught to learners’ lives. In a math lesson on estimating areas, give learners the homework assignment of calculating the area of their bedroom or another part of their hours and estimating the amount of paint needed to cover the walls. (3) Homework Planner: Teach learners to use a homework planner to jot down assignments, organize any materials needed for homework, transport homework safely back to school, and provide space for parents and instructors to communicate about homework through written school-home notes. (4) Learner Self-Monitoring: Direct learners to chart their homework completion each week. Have learners plot the number of assignments submitted on time in green, assignments not submitted in red, and assignments submitted late in yellow.

Math Instruction: Consolidate Learner Learning During Lecture Through the Peer-Guided Pause

During large-group math lectures, instructors can help learners retain more instructional content by incorporating brief Peer Guided Pause sessions into lectures. Learners are trained to work in pairs. During one or more appropriate review points in a lecture period, the instructor directs learners to pair up to work for 4 minutes. During each Peer Guided Pause, learners are given a worksheet with one or more completed word or number problems demonstrating the math concept(s) covered in the lecture. The sheet also has additional, similar problems that pairs of learners work cooperatively to complete, along with an answer key. Learner pairs are reminded to (a) monitor their understanding of the lesson concepts, (b) review the correct math model problem, (c) work cooperatively on the additional problems, and (d) check their answers. The instructor can direct learner pairs to write their names on the practice sheets and collect them as a convenient way to monitor learner understanding.

Math Instruction: Increase Learner Engagement and Improve Group Behaviors With Response Cards

Response cards can increase active learner engagement in group math activities while reducing disruptive behavior. In the group-response technique, all learners in the classroom are supplied with an erasable tablet, such as a chalk slate or laminated board with an erasable marker. The instructor instructs at a fast pace. The instructor begins by posing a question to the class. Learners are given sufficient wait time for each to write a response on his or her response card. The instructor then directs learners to present their cards. If the majority of the class has the correct answer, the instructor praises the group. If more than one-quarter of the learners record an incorrect answer on their cards, the instructor uses guided questions and demonstrations to steer learners to the right answer choice.

Math Instruction: Maintain a Supportive Atmosphere for Classroom “Math Talk”

Instructors can promote greater learner ‘risk-taking’ in mathematics learning when cultivating a positive classroom atmosphere for math discussions while preventing peers from ridiculing each other. The instructor models behavioral expectations for open, interactive discussions, praises learners for their class participation and creative attempts at problem-solving and points out that incorrect answers and misunderstandings should be celebrated—as they often lead to breakthroughs in learning. The instructor uses open-ended comments (e.g., “What led you to that answer?”) as tools to draw out learners and encourage them to explore and apply math concepts in group discussion. Learners are also encouraged in a supportive manner to evaluate each other’s reasoning. However, the instructor intervenes immediately to prevent negative learner comments or ‘put-downs’ about peers. As with any negative classroom behavior, a first offense requires that the learner meet privately with the instructor to discuss instructor expectations for positive classroom behavior. If the learner continues to put down peers, the instructor imposes appropriate disciplinary consequences.

Math Instruction: Support Learners Through a Wrap-Around Instruction Plan

When instructors instruct learners in more complex math cognitive strategies, they must support struggling learners with a ‘wrap-around instructional plan. That plan implements several elements: (a) Assessment of the learner’s problem-solving skills. The instructor first verifies that the learner has the necessary academic competencies to learn high-level math content and reading/writing skills, knowledge of math operations, and grasp of required math vocabulary. (b) Explicit instruction. The instructor presents new math content in structured, highly organized lessons. The instructor also uses instructional tools such as Guided Practice and ‘overlearning.’ (c) Process modeling. The instructor adopts a ‘think aloud’ approach, or process modeling, to reveal their cognitive process to the class while using a cognitive tactic to solve a math problem. In turn, learners are encouraged to think aloud when applying the same tactic—first as part of a whole class or group, then independently. The instructor observes learners during process modeling to verify that they are correctly applying the cognitive strategy. (d) Performance feedback. Learners get performance feedback about their level of mastery in learning the cognitive tactic. That feedback can take several forms, including curriculum-based measurement, timely corrective feedback, specific praise and encouragement, grades, and brief instructor conferences. (e) Review of mastered skills or material. Once the learner has mastered a cognitive strategy, the instructor structures future class lessons or independent work to give the learner periodic opportunities to use and maintain the strategy. The instructor also provides occasional brief’ booster sessions’, reteaching steps of the cognitive strategy to improve learner retention.

Math Instruction: Unlock the Thoughts of Reluctant Learners Through Class Journaling

Learners can effectively clarify their knowledge of math concepts and problem-solving strategies through regular use of class’ math journals’. Journaling is an essential communication channel about math issues for learners who are unsure of their abilities and reluctant to contribute orally in class. At the start of the year, the instructor introduces the journaling assignment, telling learners that they will be asked to write weekly to instructor-posed questions. At first, the instructor presents ‘safe’ questions that tap into the learners’ opinions and attitudes about mathematics. As learners become comfortable with the journaling activity, the instructor starts to pose questions about the learners’ mathematical thinking relating to specific assignments. Learners are encouraged to use numerals, mathematical symbols, and diagrams in their journal entries to enhance their explanations. The instructor provides brief written comments on individual learner entries and oral feedback and to the class on the equality and content of class journal responses. Math journaling can prod learners to move beyond ‘rote’ mastery of the steps for completing math problems toward a grasp of the math concepts that underlie and explain a particular problem-solving approach. Instructors will find that journal entries are a concrete method for monitoring learner understanding of abstract math concepts. To facilitate the quality of journal entries, the instructor might also assign them an effort grade that will be calculated into math report card grades.

Math Problem-Solving: Help Learners Avoid Errors With the ‘Individualized Self-Correction Checklist’

Learners can improve their accuracy on types of word and number problems by using an ‘individualized self-instruction checklist’ that tells them to pay attention to their specific error patterns. To create such a checklist, the instructor meets with the learner. Together they analyze error patterns that the learner tends to commit on a particular problem type. For each type of error identified, the learner and instructor describe the appropriate step to prevent the error from occurring. These self-check items are collected into a single checklist. Learners are then encouraged to use their individualized self-instruction checklist whenever they work independently on their number or word problems. As older learners become proficient in creating and using these individualized error checklists, they can begin to analyze their math errors and make their checklists independently whenever they encounter new problem types.

Math Review: Balance Massed & Distributed Practice

Instructors can best promote learners’ acquisition and fluency in a newly taught math skill by transitioning from massed to distributed practice. When learners have recently acquired a math skill but are not yet fluent in its use, they need several chances to try out the skill under instructor supervision—a technique sometimes referred to as ‘massed practice. Once learners have developed facility with that new math skill, they must be required to use the skill to retain it; a tactic also known as ‘distributed practice.’ Instructors can program distributed practice of a math skill such as reducing fractions to least common denominators into the curriculum either by (a) regularly requiring the learner to complete short assignments in which they practice that skill in isolation or (b) teaching an advanced algorithm or problem-solving approach that incorporates, and requires repeated use of the previously learned math skill.

Math Review: Teach Effective Test-Preparation Strategies

A juxtaposition of the methods that high and low-achieving math learners typically use to prepare for tests suggests that struggling math learners need to be taught (1) specific test-review strategies and (2) time-management and self-advocacy skills. Among these strategies, deficient test-takers benefit from explicit instruction in taking adequate notes, adopting a method to review material for tests, and giving themselves additional practice in solving problems. Struggling test-takers also require pointers to manage their study time wisely, structure their study environment to increase concentration, and develop ‘self-advocacy skills such as seeking help from instructors when needed. Instructors can teach effective test prep methods as a whole-group instructional strategy.

Math Vocabulary: Pre-teach, Model, and Use Standard Math Terms

Three strategies can help learners learn essential math vocabulary: pre-teaching vocabulary items, modeling those vocabulary words and using universally accepted math terms in instruction. (1) Preteac math vocabulary. Math vocabulary provides learners with the language tools to grasp abstract mathematical concepts and to explain their reasoning. Preview math vocabulary as a regular part of the ‘background’ information that learners receive in preparation to learn math concepts or operations. (2) Model the vocabulary when new concepts are taught. Strengthen learners’ grasp of vocabulary by reviewing several math problems with the class, each time explicitly modeling the use of appropriate vocabulary to describe the concepts being taught. Then have learners engage in cooperative learning or individual practice activities in which they too must successfully use the new vocabulary—while the instructor provides targeted support to learners as needed. (3) Ensure that learners learn standard, accepted labels for common math terms and that they use them to describe their math problem-solving efforts

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6 Research-Based Interventions for Writing

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When planning an MTSS literacy intervention plan, it’s important to include a variety of writing supports.

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By: Rachel Brown, Ph.D., NCSP

Of the three major basic academic subject areas (e.g., reading, math, and writing), writing is often neglected in discussions of core instruction. This is partly due to some overlap between reading and writing instruction when it is included in elementary grade Language Arts instruction. At the middle and high school levels, writing is often an expected skill rather than something that requires additional instruction. For these reasons, writing can be neglected in discussions of essential core teaching content and practices. Despite this neglect, writing is a very important skill. Through effective written expression, students convey what they have learned across all subject areas. In addition, effective writing is reviewed and evaluated as part of both college and employment applications. Some teachers might conclude that the modern digital era of universal internet and video-based information might indicate that writing skills are less important than in prior decades. The sheer volume of written text found on the internet seems to refute this conclusion. This blog will review important features of Tier 1 core writing instruction as well as methods that can be used to evaluate student writing skills.
Core Writing Instruction: Grades K-5
In the elementary grades, writing instruction is most often part of the overall Language Arts (LA) curriculum. LA instruction usually includes reading, spelling, and writing, with an increasing emphasis on writing with each higher grade level. Research suggests that elementary grade teachers should allocate at least 90 minutes per day for reading instruction. Importantly, this block of time does not include instruction in spelling and writing. Instead, elementary teachers need to set aside additional time for such instruction. Although there are less firm guidelines for how much time is needed for spelling and writing in grades K-5, about 30 minutes is a common amount.

The specific instruction included during the elementary writing block will vary across the grades. Students in kindergarten and first grade must first work on learning how to write individual letters and then words. Next (e.g., grades 2-3), instruction will focus on writing sentences. Once students start learning to write words, lessons usually include a heavy focus on correct spelling as well as vocabulary. Finally, in grades 4 and 5 writing lessons start to include learning how to write paragraphs. It is important to note that there is an instructional hierarchy included in this progression. Students will not be able to write paragraphs or essays until they know how to write words and sentences.

Some core LA curricula include writing instruction lessons that complement the reading skills that students are learning. When this is the case, teachers might not need to use any additional instructional materials for writing lessons. When the LA materials do not include adequate writing instruction lessons, teachers might need to augment resources in order to support students' writing skills. An excellent research-based method for supporting writing instruction is called Student-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD; Johnson, Hancock, Carter, & Pool, 2013). The SRSD method is detailed in many research articles as well as in several books about this method (Gillespie, & Graham, 2014; Harris, Graham, Mason, & Friedlander, 2008; Kaldenberg, Ganzeveld, Hosp, & Rodgers, 2016; Kang, McKenna, Arden, & Ciullo, 2016; Koster, Tribushinina, de Jong, & van den Bergh, 2015; Rogers, & Graham, 2008). A nice feature of the SRSD method is that it can be used with any other instructional program or published materials. These materials can be applied to writing lessons for narrative and expository purposes and with increasing complexity across grade levels.
Core Writing Instruction: Grades 6-12
At the secondary level, writing skills take on new meaning because writing becomes the most important method by which students demonstrate their learning. Nonetheless, secondary students usually need ongoing writing instruction in order to improve and refine their skills. In the middle school grades, the focus of instruction is often on grammar. Although students might not uniformly enjoy grammar lessons, they are important because learning the major English grammar rules helps students to write more concisely and meaningfully. Once students master basic English grammar, the next focus might be on learning to write different types of longer compositions. For example, students can learn techniques for writing fictional stories as well as expository essays that serve to inform or persuade.

Essay writing is the most common type required at the high school level. Indeed, advanced high school courses usually expect students to be able to submit major assignments as essay-length papers. It is worth noting that not all students will enter high school with adequate writing skills for effective essay writing. For this reason, high schools need to offer writing instruction that meets a wide array of student skill levels. As with younger grades, an effective method for teaching writing at the secondary grades is SRSD. This method can be customized to meet the needs of all grades as well as students with different writing backgrounds. In addition, SRSD lessons can be used in both basic writing and content area courses where writing is a required skill. For example, there are SRSD lessons that help students learn how to conduct research, organize ideas, and write a research paper.
Measuring Writing Outcomes
Although writing skills are very important for student success, there are few standardized writing assessment measures. This is because the nature of written products is harder to measure than reading or math skills. In order to measure a student's reading or math performance, an assessment compares each student's performance to the correct answer. Writing is more difficult to measure because there are always multiple correct answers to most writing tasks. For example, a teacher could assign students to write an essay about Sojourner Truth. In response students might submit essays of varying length and quality. Both short and long essays could be excellent or terrible. There is no single metric that can evaluate student writing skills in the same ways that exist for reading and math. Since no one single assessment of writing skills exists, the best alternative is to collect multiple student writing examples over time. Such examples will show how a student's writing skills change across the school year. In addition, these examples document the writing qualities and can be compared to course expectations.

Writing instruction remains an important part of daily academic skills instruction. Even in the era of digital literacy and online learning, students must know how to communicate their ideas in writing. Writing instruction will vary by grade level, but it should be part of the core curriculum at all grade levels so that students can become proficient with accurate, spelling, vocabulary, sentences, and longer written work. Since students begin each school year with different learning backgrounds, teachers need to include writing instruction in Tier 1 core lessons as well as offer supplemental writing instruction (e.g., Tiers 2 and 3) for those students who need it.
References
Harris K.R., Graham, S., Mason, L.H., & Friedlander, B. (2008). Powerful writing strategies for all students. Baltimore: Brookes Publishing

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On Wednesday, 8 October 2014, Jim Wright presented a workshop, Classroom Interventions for the Common Core, in Wisconsin Dells, WI. The workshop ws sponsored by Wisconsin Educatioal Resources, LLC.

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This module is designed for interventionists, special educators, and general educators to review instructional strategies that students with mathematics difficulties need to be successful in both core instruction and intervention. Students with mathematics difficulties may make progress in intervention but still struggle in core because there is often not a bridge or support to show how the intervention connects to core. This module addresses these needs and identifies how all teachers need to support generalization and build upon mathematics trajectories for students to be successful.
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Supporting Mathematics Intervention in Middle School: Training Module Collection Mathematics Curriculum Crosswalks Grades 1-5 Mathematics Strategies to Support Intensifying Interventions Intensive Intervention in Mathematics Course Content

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