Three Tierd Intervention

Interventions in early childhood are more effective than interventions with older school-age children (Shaw et al., 2003). Brain development is still occurring and new neuron connections are formed, which makes adapting to situations and learning how to respond appropriately easier for younger students. When students are in preschool, it is critical to support their social and emotional development in order to prevent possible long-term deficits (Hemmeter, Ostrosky, & Fox, 2006). Social skill training for teachers can help to reduce aggressive behavior. Response to Intervention for Behavior (RtI:B) is a practice that can be used to reduce aggression behaviors. It is based on a three-tiered, problem solving process. The goal of RtI:B is to provide interventions that are routinely monitored, matched to student need and adapted based on student data (Griffiths, Parson, Burns, VanDerHeyden, & Tilly, 2007). Schools that used an RtI:B process found that these strategies were effective for 75% of the students involved in the three-tiered system (Barnett, Diamond, Thomas & Munro, 2007). …show more content…
Teachers design their classroom to support students’ social-emotional needs by having consistent expectations, positive reinforcement and whole-class discussions on what a healthy classroom looks like and sounds like. A study by Hemmeter and colleagues (2006) found that creating a caring environment that is socially rich, cooperative, and requires a systemic approach that many teachers do not take the time to establish. However, when universal strategies were consistently (the length of the school year) implemented disruptive behaviors decreased (Hemmeter et al.,