Response to Intervention: Online Professional Development Modules and Resources for Classroom Assessment

Presenters

Kimberly Skow (Primary)

Project Coordinator
IRIS Center

Silvia DeRuvo

Special Education Resources Development Specialists
WestEd

Debbie DeBerry

School Psychologist
Hardeman County School District

Description

This interactive webinar will highlight free online professional development modules and resources provided by the IRIS (IDEA ’04 and Research for Inclusive Settings) Center for Training Enhancements to support the validated practice of monitoring students’ progress and curriculum-based assessment, a cornerstone of Response to Intervention (RTI). The presenters—Kimberly Skow, Project Coordinator of the IRIS Center; and Silvia DeRuvo, Senior Program Associate at the California Comprehensive Center at WestEd; together with Debbie DeBerry, practicing School Psychologist in Hardeman County, Tennessee—will discuss how these online professional development resources have been used to assist teachers in the essential practice of progress monitoring. In these professional development training modules, teachers, experts and real life scenarios, provide teachers with practical hands on experience with curriculum-based assessment, scoring, graphing, decision-making and effective feedback to students, parents and other professionals that does not require additional funding for implementation. This webinar highlights key features about these training materials to be used in professional development activities by professional developers, site and district administrators, and teacher trainers. As the webinar will include a web tour of the materials, participants are advised to register for the live webinar option.

The IRIS Center and the Tennessee State Improvement Grant (SIG), worked with content experts from across the country who provided their insight and expertise as the RTI modules and resources were developed. In these interactive resources, researchers and practitioners provide real-life scenarios and examples to clarify the steps in the RTI implementation process. Along with a wealth of other resources about effective teaching practices for struggling learners, eight RTI modules and other materials (e.g., case studies, briefing papers, activities) are designed for use in professional development activities about RTI and delivered to teachers and school leaders.

The presenters will provide an interactive overview of the IRIS site as well as the voices and experience of experts that have used these tools in the implementation process. For more information on these FREE RESOURCES, go to http://www.iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/.

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