TPE 1.4

Use a variety of developmentally and ability-appropriate instructional strategies, resources, and assistive technology, including principles of Universal Design of Learning (UDL) and Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) to support access to the curriculum for a wide range of learners within the general education classroom and environment.

TPE 1.4 states that we should be using appropriate instructional strategies, resources, the MTSS to support the curriculum and to help scaffold students within the general education classroom. RtI and MTSS (more specficially the MTSS) are created to help students who struggle academically and in their behavior to excel in a general education classroom. MTSS is an umbrealla term for both RtI and PBIS, which makes MTSS the more highly coveted tiered system. 

RtI and MTSS Reflection

Response to Intervention, also known as RTI, is the practice of ‘providing high-quality instruction/intervention matched to student needs using learning rate over time and level of performance to make important educational decisions.’ RtI is focused more towards the academic side of a student. RtI is measured in 3 different tiers, beginning with tier one. Tier one is core instruction, tier two is tier one plus supplemental interventions, and tier three is tier one and two combined, along with the intensive, individualized interventions. The Multi-tiered System of Supports, also known as MTSS, is an umbrella term that encompasses RtI and PBIS. MTSS is considered more of an integrated tier support, unlike the RtI, the MTSS includes academic and behavior to see the relation these two have for a student. MTSS considered the information received from the data and the interventions that were held with the student. Like stated before, RtI is a tiered system that received data from the academic side of the student. However, as teachers and from data, we know that both the behavior and the academic side takes an effect on the student. MTSS is used as an umbrella term for both RtI and PBIS, meaning both the academic and the behavioral side of the student. It’s a more in-depth tiered system for students.