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

This article discusses Response to Intervention and its significant effect it has on struggling students. RTI was "created because of the many problems with the discrepancy model for identifying students with learning disabilities." This program was created to help educators identify students with learning disabilities, and to respond to the student's need an to get them immediate help in the subject they are struggling in. This article continues to talk about RTI and it's importance and it's impact of educators and students. It describes what RTI entails, the processes of response to intervention when working with a student and how a student is evaluated, an d the background of how and why RTI was created. RTI has made a huge difference in many educators and students' lives. It has had an impact on many students and saved many students from falling behind in school. It allowed educators to take one step further into helping a struggling student excel and keep up with the rest of his or her fellow classmate. RTI gave students more and better opportunities to move forward and not fall behind, giving them the chance to be excellent students despite their struggles and disabilities.