This is more addressed to secondary teachers, and is not directly related to mosaic of thought, so I promise this will be my only discussion on this site, but it seemed appropriate with all the RtI discussion. If you want to e-mail me about this privately I am glad to talk. As you read the national reports on RtI you'll see that not only are you offering a continum of services, beginning in the classroom and building with additional (outside of the gen ed classroom) time in smaller groups, but you need to be using methods that are researched based. I know that is a can of worms, but I am very comfortable with one model, that is even cited in some of the national material. The Strategic Instruction Model comes out of the University of Kansas in Lawrence. They understood the need for an RtI model before we were talking about it and have spent 30 years research validating their instructional strategies to address struggling learners in this time of information explosion. If you're interested in knowing more this is a good webiste http://www.kucrl.org/ Go to the bottom and click SIM This model utlizes 2 "arms"...there are instructional routines for the gen. ed classroom to make curriculum access easier for all students, especially struggling. And then for student who prove to need more there are Learning Strategies. Every resource/inclusion/reading teacher I've known to use the strategies tells me it was the first time they knew they were given the students a strategy that was going to serve them year after year in almost all content areas. You can contact KU to obtain information on using it at your site. Gina _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_allup_howitworks_012009 _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org.
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