"According to many publications about the three-tier model of RtI, a school's goal is for no more than 20% of students to require additional support beyond good Tier I curriculum and instruction" (Burns et al., 2005). Tier 2 is designed to support a group of students who need additional help to meet their academic and behavioral goal. A teacher recognizes students who didn’t do well even after applying strategies in Tier 1 and then comes up with the strategies focused on the specific area of needs based on the data gathered from students’ performance in Tier 1. One of Tier 2 strategy is surface management techniques (regrouping, restructuring lessons, nonverbal signals, and rewards) which are used to solve surface level behavioral and academic problems. Positive reinforcement techniques are good to re-engage them. These technique need not be necessarily certificates or tokens. A teacher needs to find what boosts up the student to learn and work hard. Sometimes different ways of learning, different classroom setting, or knowing the value of what they are learning may kindle their interest. From the classes I observed and I found out that some students do not ask questions even if they do not understand. Tier 2 is perfect place to motivate and to make positive relationship with them so that they open themselves.
If the students still do not improve even after applying different intervention in Tier 2; they are then moved to more intensive intervention in Tier 3.
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