Advantages of Response to Intervention (RTI)

The advantage of using RTI stems from the fact that it is a proactive problem-solving process that:

• Enables all children to learn;
• Enhances a school’s ability to provide opportunities for all students to achieve their full potential;
• Requires schools and teachers to ensure all interventions (specific interventions) happen early;
• Requires behavioral and instructional interventions to be provided within the general education curriculum (whenever appropriate), so students can be assisted before concerns are raised and/or before they start failing;
• Requires more than one tier (level) of intervention to be used;
• Requires the effectiveness of any behavioral and instructional strategy implemented to be evaluated frequently;
• Requires that the behavioral and instructional interventions used must  be based on research or scientific evidence;
• Specifies that effective solutions and strategies can best be identified and implemented when educators, parents, and related service personnel work collaboratively;
• Requires that accurate information about students’ performance be communicated regularly;
• Requires that data must be used in making decisions about placement and interventions;
• Specifies that parents have vast information about their children and must be invited to participate; and
• Specifies that teachers deserve the resources necessary to meet the educational needs of students.