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Instructional Intervention Teams (IIT)
The Instructional Consultation Team (ITT) model (Rosenfield
and Gravois, 1996) has been integrated into our
problem-solving team
approach and is called Instructional Intervention Teams (IIT).
All Howard County elementary and middle schools are
implementing this model in an effort to enhance the
academic and behavioral outcomes for students and
teachers.
Goals
Student outcomes: Students served by IITs will
acquire skills to continuously improve toward
achieving grade level or above outcomes.
Teacher outcomes: Teachers and team members who
engage in problem solving will enhance their
knowledge of instructional assessment and
intervention implementation
Critical Assumptions
- All students learn.
- Early intervention is preferable to waiting for
failure.
- The critical arena for intervention is the
student-teacher relationship within the general
education setting.
- The instructional match and setting is the focus
of problem solving.
- A problem solving community is the foundation
for professional and student learning.
- Teachers, as professionals, are entitled to
consult and collaborate.
- Change is a process, not an event.
Components of Effective Problem Solving Teams
- Explicitly define concern in observable terms.
- Collect baseline data.
- Develop goals.
- Develop an intervention that links with the
identified concern.
- Implement the intervention with integrity.
- Graph data to monitor student progress.
- Compare graphed data with baseline to determine
if intervention is effective; adapt as necessary.
Getting the Most Out of Your IIT
- 100% of the team attends 20 hour training (Level
I) in problem solving skills.
- The administrator attends meetings, guides
process, and connects with School Improvement Team
(SIT) and other school-wide data.
- Administrative support is provided (e.g., attend
training, use active problem solving, voice support
for team across school).
- The team analyzes referral patterns.
- The Team Facilitator provides training to IIT
members based on identified and observed needs.
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