Navigating the Core Curriculum: RTI Strategies to Support Every Learner -how teachers can address learning variables in class to enrich learning for all - Softcover

Toby J. Karten

9781943874613: Navigating the Core Curriculum: RTI Strategies to Support Every Learner -how teachers can address learning variables in class to enrich learning for all

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1943874611 ISBN 13: 9781943874613

Publisher: Solution Tree, 2017

When educators plan instruction within an RTI framework, all K-12 learners can achieve core academic mastery across grades and disciplines. In this practical teachers' guide for responsive instructional interventions, the author identifies potential barriers to learning and establishes clear action plans for diminishing them. You'll deepen your understanding of the three tiers of RTI and gain access to example lesson plans tailored to diverse student skill sets. Learn to monitor student progress and provide responsive instructional interventions with instructional strategies and curriculum resources school staff can apply in their respective roles.

Benefits

Design multitiered lessons that address students' varying interests, motivations, and levels of understanding.
Study classroom-tested quarterly and monthly planners that afford opportunities for repetition and enrichment.
Examine how to best use evidence-based practice in K-12 classrooms to observe students' skills and challenge them in ways that maximize their learning.
Consider why confidence, competence, and collaboration are vital classroom components for helping students gain core mastery.
Discover the variables that impact students' learning and appropriate lesson-plan templates that have multiple entry points for cultivating core skills.

Contents

Chapter 1: Creating Tiered Interventions for Literacy and Mathematics

Chapter 2: Implementing Best Practices

Chapter 3: Offering Multiple Tiers of Interventions

Chapter 4: Minimizing and Maximizing Strategic Engagements for Rigorous Learning

Chapter 5: Approaching the Core Vocabulary

Chapter 6: Achieving the Core With Confidence, Competence, and Collaboration

Chapter 7: Ensuring Professional Fidelity

Chapter 8: Opening Doors for All Learners

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About the Author:

Toby J. Karten is an experienced educator who has worked in the field of special education since 1976. An accomplished author and researcher, she has presented successful staff development to local, national, and international audiences. Toby is a lecturer at Drew and Monmouth University and an adjunct professor and graduate instructor at the Regional Training Center, which is affiliated with Gratz College, College of New Jersey, and Washington College. She has been a resource teacher, staff developer, adult educator, and inclusion consultant in New York and New Jersey schools and in many districts nationally and globally for students and educators in grades K-12 and beyond.

In addition to her roles as an inclusion coach, student and family advocate, professional developer, mentor, and resource teacher, Toby designed graduate courses titled Skills and Strategies for Inclusion and disABILITY Awareness and Strategies for a Spectrum of Learners. Toby has trained other instructors in three states to teach her courses. She has been recognized by both the Council for Exceptional Children and the New Jersey Department of Education as an exemplary educator, receiving two Teacher of the Year awards.

Toby has authored several books and resources about inclusion practices, which are currently used for instruction on many college and university campuses and schools throughout the world.

She earned an undergraduate degree in special education from Brooklyn College, a master of science in special education from the College of Staten Island, a supervisory degree from Georgian Court University, and an honorary doctorate from Gratz College.

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