Intervention Supports
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Structuring Intervention Support
Elementary
Secondary
These documents have suggestions for scheduling your math learning cycle to include time to work on interventions with small groups. It also has some ideas for your intervention work.
The DSB1 tiered math intervention model provides increasing levels of support based on students’ learning needs.
Tier 1 is core instruction for all students. Teachers support learning using concrete, pictorial, and abstract representations, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and strategies like parallel tasks to meet diverse needs.
Tier 2 is targeted small-group instruction for students who need additional support with specific concepts. These groups are formed based on recent formative assessments, such as exit tickets, and are led by the classroom teacher during regular math class time.
Tier 3 involves more intensive support from a Math Facilitator. Small groups are pulled outside the math block for focused reteaching to address and close specific learning gaps.
Sample of Weekly Intervention Structure
Exit Tickets & Intervention Strategies
This document has links to videos of DSB1 teachers work with interventions. It includes:
Exit Tickets: What? How? When?
Tracking: How to use data from Exit Tickets to Plan Interventions.
Timing: How to fit it in.
How to do interventions.
Tiered Interventions
Formative Assessment
DSB1 recommends using Knowledgehook for Exit Tickets and other formative assesment tasks. It provides instant results teachers can use to create interventions groups based on specific concepts.
Supporting Students With Special Education Needs in the Math Class
This document aims to help mathematics and special education teachers collaboratively develop and implement Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) to improve students' math achievement and ensure their meaningful inclusion in the classroom.
This resource is designed to be used for starting points to think, plan, and support mathematics programming in response to a student’s assessed areas of strength and/or need.
Math Facilitator Intervention Tools
Tier 3 support
When providing intensive support, the Math Facilitator reteaches mathematical concepts to the small group of Level 2 students to address math learning gaps.
This intensive instruction will use concrete manipulatives and pictorial models to help build the student’s conceptual understanding of the math concept.
Click here for further information on the role and responsibilities of the Math Facilitator.
Math Facilitators are provided with intervention lessons and activities through Leaps and Bounds and Math Pre-Assessment, as well as encouraged to use the Hands to Minds (Super Source) resources and the book, Making Math Meaningful by Marian Small.
Click here for further information on the available resources.
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