Response to Intervention (RTI): What Teachers of Reading Need to Know

This article was about RTI, Response to Intervention and its importance in the classroom with struggling readers and learners. The article discusses the significant effects RTI has on students as learners. All too often learning disabilities were being addressed and noticed later on in a students learning experience so the RTI program was implemented as a means to aknowledge and eliminte this problem. RTI's main purpose is for educators to be able to identify students with learning disabilities earlier and to respond to this disability by providing the specific help the students needs. Not only does this article talk about what RTI is it also goes in to detail about the impact it has on students and educators and the process that is taken by educators and how to evaluate the students. RTI has reshaped the education system and has allowed for teachers to offer better and more efficient help to students more effictively and earlier. RTI has allowed students that struggle to have more opportunities to stay on grade level, rather then to fall behind. I believe that RTI has changed the education system for the better. Although it holds the teacher more accountable for each of their students as indivindual learners and may create more work for teachers, it is a very positive system to have been implemented and through the extra time and energy put in by the teachers many students are benefiting from the RTI system.