Pyramid of Intervention



Pyramid of Intervention

Introduction

The world's economy is based on billions of people living in villages, slums, and shantytowns. These people usually have no or very little formal education as it is hard to reach those people through distribution channels. The education and services delivered to those people is also inferior (Prahalad & Hart, 2002). Thus, the Pyramid of Intervention represents the supporting system provided by the schools for their struggling students. The Pyramid of Intervention is a four tiered approach to address the needs of students. The four tiers provide the following services for the approach

Tier-1 is based on standard and differentiated instructions , monitoring progress by the measurement tools that are curriculum based such as the GRASP.

Tier-2 is based on standard process of intervention protocols to identify and provide the research-based interventions and monitoring of the progress.

Tier-3 is an intense formalized model for problem solving, which identifies the student needs and uses AIMSweb to monitor progress as well as target research based intervention.

Tier-4 provides the instructions, methodologies and programs that specially designed as well as uses AIMSweb for a greater level of progress monitoring.

(Troup County Schools, 2011).

Purpose

The purpose of the Pyramids of Intervention is providing appropriate educational assistance to support students for diverse learning with high standards and opportunities for future. There is also an understanding that the inclusive education impacts the society as a whole and not only the students (Salend & Duhaney, 2007). The inclusive education of high quality is a challenge of social justices. The human capital, which is a need of today's economy and societies can be achieved by empowering the teachers with the high level of knowledge, skills, and assistance to educate students as well as determining their needs to differentiate instruction for responding to their needs.

The researches have found out that appropriate support for the teachers and students on place, including diverse needs of the students in regular classrooms will not be advantageous (Fore, et al., 2008; McLeskey & Waldron, 2011). There is an understanding in order to meet the needs of students, particularly for the disabilities and exceptional learning needs is not the matter of placement but it needs programming (Alberta Education, 2009; McLeskey, et al., 2013). Recently there are movements to support the learning needs of students through the continuum of services (McLeskey, et al., 2013).

To assist the movements towards inclusive and special education at many schools in developed countries such as USA and Canada have developed various models in response to intervention. RTI is a continuous process that provides the means of high quality education, data driven decision making, instructions based on evidence, tiered supporting models and the approaches at system level for improving the outcomes achieved from academies and learner's behaviors (McIntosh, et al., 2011).



Pyramid of Intervention for Schools/ Districts

The Pyramid models of intervention are meant to support the strategies and efforts that are beneficial for the district students. Universal support is based on learning concepts of Universal Design Learning as well as valuing ...