Blog Post Reflection 2

I chose a journal article from http://www.thejournal.com/ for this professional reflection blog. This article discusses the controversy over RTI (Response To Intervention), the three-tiered triangle instructional model. Some educators are taking a more holistic approach to intervention, favoring strategies that may prevent intervention by using more inclusive procedures for academic deficiencies .For example, one woman has developed a research program called R&R, recognition and response, it detects and addresses learning deficits through early childhood intervention. It is derived from the RTI model but is adapted for very young children and benefits all children regardless of their developmental level. The key difference between R&R and RTI is the interventions in Tier 2. R&R opposes explicit, segregated tutoring in favor of integrating what is learned in small target groups into whole-classroom lessons. I agree with this idea because the focus in Tier 2 of an RTI is on how long and how often the tutoring sessions are going to be. In R&R, the students are given the opportunity to practice the skills they learned in their small groups with the rest of the classroom. As a special education minor, after reading this article, I plan to do more research on the R&R approach.