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Response to Intervention: A Practical Guide for Every Teacher

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As a special education teacher on special assignment this year to implement RTI, I will be brief and to the point. I attended a lecture by this professor and now have read his book. If you want clear cut information about how to implement RTI and what choices would best serve you, this is the book to use. His lecture was impressive and cut through much of the blatheration that education professionals seem to love that confuses themselves along with everyone else. RTI is not rocket science. It is a practical approach to early intervention with struggling learners that has as a side benefit their escape from the doldrums of special education and the dreaded disability labels. I highly recommend this book.

As a classroom teacher, I appreciated the authors' explanation of RTI in a clear and consise manner. The authors answer the question of "Why RTI?", give explanantions of implementation, and then give examples of implementation. That can get most teachers started on implementing, and even evaluating their school's RTI process, thereby participating in the school discussion on what RTI should look like. The authors do appeared removed from classroom realities when it comes for time for implementation, however. Labeling teachers as "negative about time prohibitions" fails to take into account the number of mandates, school, district, state, and federal, in addition to the million and one other things, that teachers are told MUST be attended to. Time limitation is a reality and it would serve busy teachers well if the authors could come up with a ready-to-go intervention package, which would include scientifically validated curricula, along with data sheets, for specific deficiencies.