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Budget cuts and Intermediate Units As the nation falls on hard economic times, all aspects of society are affected, including education. School districts are faced with decreased funding from federal and state resources and an increase in the cost of salaries and benefits. This is causing deficits that, if left unchecked can adversely affect the educational process and ultimately have a negative impact on students and society. School Districts have increased expectations toward accountability

Moray House school of Education MEd TESOL 2008-2009 Learner Assessment in TESOL Tutor: Gillies Haughton Student: Shaaban Ahmed S0899927 Learner Assessment in TESOL Assessing Listening Introduction Assessing listening is one of the most significant areas of language testing. However, it is the least area that is cared for and developed in assessment. Perhaps this is due to it is a very complex process. Listening is NOT assessed in my context and this has caused dramatic drawbacks

Chapter 3 The Response to Intervention, Referral, and Placement Process Reflection and Summary By: S. Elizabeth Jackson Examining the Response to Intervention (RTI) Process Response to Intervention (RTI) is an in school service program designed to guarantee that all students are getting a high quality education. Before students are referred for special education services, it is essential that they receive effective teaching designed to meet their own learning requirements. All students in public

The Roots of Response to Intervention In 2002, the President’s Commision on Excellence in Special Education report stated that many students are “placed in special education are instructional casualties and not students with disabilities. They noted that almost half of all children in special education were identified as having a learning disability, and this group has grown since 1976. 80% of those students with learning disabilities are there “ simply because they haven’t learned how to read.”

Read 180 Intervention at Allen READ 180 Next Generation is a reading intervention program created by Scholastic in 1999 (“Scholastic launches”, 2011). This program was created to provide strategic reading intervention to meet the needs of struggling readings including English language learners (ELL) and students with disabilities, with age-appropriate and unique content for students in grades 4-12+. (Scholastic, 2014). READ 180 is a carefully researched reading intervention program with hundreds

them. This issue probably isn’t discussed by many in our class. As a Title I, educator I have experienced a lot of students who do not have the best home life. At Laurel School we have several students who do not live with their guardian’s full time and bounce from home to home. As an administrator I need know

in charge to develop a criteria for accepting books. Once this committee evaluates which books could be a good option to be used, the committee sends a list of the books that the teachers might use. Then it becomes of matter of each teacher’s preference; however, Mrs. Espinoza addressed that changes have been made since the implementation of the Common Core Standards. What is occurring nowadays, she said, “each teacher take the Common Core and apply it to current lesson plans using the Basal or whatever

represent this word. It includes ones traits, characteristics, behavior, abilities and or inabilities they posses. The fact that this definition is so broad educators found it difficult to specifically identify what disability a student had. At the same time variables that lie within ones disability hindered the degree in which traits would be shown. For that reason many students were prematurely place in special education without services provided. The referral process to special education was not as

Response to Intervention, commonly known as RtI, is "a multi-tier approach to the early identification and support of students with learning and behavior needs" (Learn About RtI, para. 1, n.d.). New York State requires many things for the RtI program. These requirements include: appropriate instruction, instruction matched to the students’ needs, repeated assessments of the student's achievement, implementation of student information to make educational decisions, students must be screened, and

The design tool that I will use for my research case of study is the survey. Survey represents one of the most frequent types of quantitative in social science research. By utilizing the method of survey research, as a researcher I can cull a sample of respondents from a population and administers a uniform questionnaire to them; in this case the children ages 10- 13 yrs old and their parents from an aftercare program. The questionnaire, or survey, will be an indicated document that will be consummated