MTSS for Academics

What is Multi Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)?

A systems-level effort to prevent academic failure.

What is Prevention Science?

A field that focuses on developing evidence-based strategies to reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors for improving health and well-being.

What disciplines contribute to Prevention Science?

Epidemiological, social, psychological, behavioral, medical, and neurobiological sciences.

What is a central tenet of prevention science?

The promotion of health equity and reduction of disparities by analyzing societal inequalities and discrimination.

What are some benefits of Prevention Science?

Promotes daily physical activity, disrupts substance use disorder pathways, improves academic outcomes through quality childcare, and supports healthy relationships.

Describe Tier 1 in the Tiers of Instruction.

Quality instruction using evidence-based core curricula with universal screening.

What does Tier 2 entail in the Tiers of Instruction?

Supplemental instruction with progress monitoring and continued exposure to Tier 1.

What is the focus of Tier 3 interventions?

Intensive interventions designed to meet the specific needs of individual students with more frequent progress monitoring.

Name two measures for reading fluency.

Oral reading fluency and maze fluency.

What does the Science of Reading (SOR) encompass?

Research from education, psychology, and neuroscience explaining how individuals learn to read and best practices for reading instruction.

What are the 5 critical areas addressed by an evidence-based curriculum for reading?

Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Why is fluency important in reading and numeracy?

Fluency allows for the use of fewer cognitive resources, enabling quicker and more accurate problem-solving, and predicts performance on future criterion measures

What is included in evidence-based curricula for math?

Tool skills, computation, word problem solving, generic problem solving, and math vocabulary.

What are some effective approaches to intervention for reading accuracy and fluency?

Modeling, practice, immediate feedback, listening passage review, and repeated readings.

What is NOT considered intervention?

Preferential seating, shortened assignments, parent contacts, doing more of the same assignments, and retention.

What is an example of Tier 1 Intervention

Iodide in water, vaccinations, screenings in math/reading, etc

What are some Early and Basic literacy skills?

Letter naming, Letter sound, phoneme segmentation, nonsense word

What are some early numeracy skills?

Oral counting, Number Identification, Quantity discrimination, missing number

What are the 5 critical areas for Evidence-based Curricula in Reading

Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension