Tier 3 Academic Support
Intensive, individualized academic interventions for students with significant learning needs who have not responded adequately to Tier 1 and Tier 2 supports. These interventions are characterized by increased intensity, frequency, duration, and individualization, often involving specialized personnel and data-based individualization.
Key Components
- •Individualized intervention plans
- •Data-based individualization
- •Increased intervention intensity
- •Specialized instructional strategies
- •Frequent progress monitoring
Implementation Strategies
- •One-to-one or very small group instruction
- •Extended intervention sessions
- •Increased intervention frequency
- •Specialized intervention protocols
- •Multidisciplinary team approach
Assessment Tools
- •Diagnostic assessments
- •Frequent progress monitoring
- •Curriculum-based measurement
- •Mastery measurement
- •Intervention adaptation tracking
Evidence-Based Practices
Elementary
- Direct Instruction Reading Mastery
- Orton-Gillingham approach
- Precision teaching
- Concrete-Representational-Abstract instruction
Middle School
- REWARDS reading intervention
- TransMath mathematics intervention
- Intensive writing instruction
- Content enhancement routines
High School
- Corrective Reading
- Algebra readiness intervention
- Strategic instruction model
- Individualized learning plans