Despite skillful, engaging and effective lessons, a child struggles daily to complete practice work and assessments. This child may or may not need special services. A best case scenario would be that he does not need services. Rather than wait for determination of services …show more content…
Essentially Tier 1 is whole class, Tier 2 Small Group Interventions and finally, Tier 3 which is Individual Intervention. Say, for instance if the same lower elementary teacher reassessed her students again and found that one was still not benefiting from the appropriate interventions. This would then be the time to consider tier 3. What a benefit it is that this particular student has still been given extra support before being referred to special …show more content…
Those other lower elementary students are doing okay, now that the teacher has zoned in on particular concepts and given a more targeted instruction. Those students could have very easily become candidates for special services as they fell behind cumulatively each school year. Thankfully only one student is in need of intense individual services. While this situation is hypothetical, the concept of “Wait to Fail” is a real one. Children who are struggling could benefit from a little help and never need services. However, if they never get that help, they will continue to fall behind. They don’t need services because they can’t learn; they need services because they were not given the appropriate opportunities to do so. (Baffum, Matto, Webber