Supporting Math Interventions
Structuring Intervention Support
DSB1 Tiered Intervention Model
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.
Exit Tickets: What? How? When?
Establishing and Organizing Exit Tickets
Convincing Students to Use Paper with Knowledgehook Exit Tickets
Various Types of Exit Tickets
A Knowledgehook Example Using Paper
Assessment Tracking: How do I document and organize data to plan for interventions?
Documenting and Planning Intervention Groups
Documenting Exit Tickets (Primary Example)
Organizing Exit Ticket Data for Individual Students
Tracking Student Progress and Communicating with Families
My Math Path Assessment Trackers
These assessment trackers provide lesson-specific ‘look-fors’ to help you record student needs and document evidence of learning.
Intervention Timing: When do I fit exit tickets and interventions into my day?
Timing Your Interventions
Intervention Structure: What does this look like?
Small Group Intervention Example 1 (Grade 3)
Small Group Intervention Example 2 (Grade 3)
Using a Number Talk as a Whole Group Intervention
Impact: Are Interventions Helping Students?
How Exit Tickets and Interventions Help My Students!
Planning for Interventions: Supports and Examples
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.
Elementary
Secondary
Formative Assessment
Knowledgehook offers a quick, easy way to create exit tickets and other formative assessment tasks, providing instant results that help teachers target specific learning needs and plan effective intervention groups.
Supporting Special Education Needs in a Math Classroom
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 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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