The teacher provides a clear definition of the student’s academic, behavioral problem and provides an explanation as to why the problems are occurring. The general education teacher also selects ‘research-based’ interventions and documents the student’s intervention plans while also monitoring the student’s progress. Monitoring the student’s progress includes assessing the student to see if the RTI is aiding the student’s needs. Overall, the teacher knows exactly what the student’s next steps are when the student fails to make adequate progress with Tier 1 interventions alone. However, the special education teacher is not as prominent, but the special education teacher can still provide expertise if an evaluation needs to be considered. Tier 3 is rather significant for the special education teacher to provide additional assistance as well as assess and monitor the student’s growth in order to know how to help the student transition. The special education teacher is involved in determining if testing needs to take place as well as brainstorming ideas for the classroom (What is RTI?, n.d., …show more content…
However, a special education student may have accommodations or specific corrections to the policy. Overall, the special education students are not discriminated against and therefore treated as equal as the general education students. There are not restrictions on disciplining students with disabilities because by not addressing dangerous behaviors, professionals would say that the student was not receiving an “appropriate” education (Yell, 2016, p.