RTI for Diverse Learners: More Than 200 Instructional Interventions, March/2010

The 2004 reauthorization of IDEA spells out schools' responsibility to provide instructional intervention and Response to Intervention (RTI) as the first line of problem solving when addressing students' learning and behaviour differences. This research-based resource provides more than 200 instructional interventions for teaching the growing population of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds within an RTI framework.

Organized by the tiers of RTI, these specific interventions help classroom teachers address students' cognitive, behaviour, literacy, and communication issues at each level. This book features:

1. A reader-friendly format that allows busy teachers to easily find the interventions they need
2. Straightforward, concrete directions for using each intervention
3. Examples from practice and a glossary to aid implementation

RTI for Diverse Learners offers step-by-step guidance for distinguishing between language development and special education needs in diverse students and providing appropriate instruction.

About The Author:
Catherine Collier is one of the first PhD graduates in the emerging field of bilingual/cross-cultural special education and worked directly with a small cadre of nationally recognized specialists in establishing this field of study. She has extensive experience as a classroom teacher with non-native English learners as well as a bilingual special educator with culturally diverse learners. Collier is currently on the faculty of Western Washington University, and is the director of Curriculum Integration for Responsive, Crosscultural, Language-focused Education (CIRCLE), a national professional development program funded by the Federal Office of English Language Acquisition.