A leading researcher tells you how to use Response to Intervention (RtI) to raise the achievement of struggling math students

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SNAPSHOT: Russell Gersten, PhD, a leading researcher who chaired the expert panel that recently developed the What Works Clearinghouse practice guide on math RtI, will explain how to implement 8 recommendations for working with struggling math students based on the panel's comprehensive review of the research on effective math interventions.

Many schools are implementing RtI for struggling readers, but RtI initiatives for math are still relatively new. To date, little research has been conducted on math RtI per se, but there is a rich body of research on effective math interventions used outside an RtI framework, the panel wrote in its April 2009 practice guide, "Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics: Response to Intervention (RtI) for Elementary and Middle Schools."

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With the growing emphasis on teaching more students algebra well before high school, it's become imperative to provide interventions to struggling students in grades 4-8. The bulk of research on math interventions is focused on K-4 students, but Dr. Gersten and the panel have extrapolated from this research to make recommendations for grades 4-8 interventions. This is a webinar that is focused on helping you bring this research into your classrooms.

The 8 recommendations that Dr. Gersten will discuss will cover screening, what to teach, skills to build and practices to implement in the classroom. He will also discuss the importance of building motivation for math in interventions.

CONFERENCE TOPICS:

• Why it's important to screen all students
• What general screening measures you should use
• What is important to teach in K-5 and in grades 4-8
• How to evaluate instructional materials
• When to provide explicit instruction
• How the National Mathematics Advisory Panel defines explicit instruction
• Are teachers providing enough scaffolded practice?
• The best way to teach word problems
• The importance of visual representations of math ideas
• Use of manipulatives as steppingstones
• Building fluent retrieval of basic arithmetic facts
• Monitoring progress--how to use results?
• How to incorporate motivational strategies into interventions
• Potential roadblocks and solutions to implementing the 8 recommendations