Chapter 1

The three tier intervention model gives me a clear understanding of how interventions should be used in the schools. I'm a visual learner, so that is easy to see. It does make me a little embrassed of my school because I feel we could do a lot more with our students. We have so many of our kids at- risk and it is really hard to get one on one tutoring or a small ratio. We implement the SFA reading program at our school and strongly disagree with some of their "rules". In leveled reading it is supposed to be used as a useful intervention, but with the SFA program I actually see it hurting some kids. Like last year my fifth grade student "George" was in my first grade reading class. The younger kids would always ask him, "How come you can't read or why is he so big?"and he would get so angry. That can't be healthy for poor George when he gets to middle school he would be stuck in a regular reading class where he would be expected to adapt to his new "leveled" peers. That makes me so mad!!!