Responding to RTI

Response to Intervention (RTI) is an area of education that I am not very familiar with since I have always taught special education for  students with severe multiple disabilities.  I decided to research it so that I would have more information to form a personal response to it for my class paper. I do find the teired system to be more of a collaborative approach to identifying and addressing students who are not performing well in the regular class.  I think it is at least a different way of looking at learning disabilities rather than the traditional IQ method used for years.  The IQ method has been viewed as biased toward certain racial and socioeconomic groups. I still have many questions about as soon this RTI process begins since often identification of students with learning disabilities has been a system of wait to fail so to speak. I will continue to gather more information on the who and how this will be implemented and I will be interested to see if it will be a bigger part of the next update to the law. I found that the CEC website  http://www.cec.sped.org/ has a good bit of information on RTI and many more topics. There is a National Center on Response to Intervention which can be found at http://rti4success.org/  Check out these sites and see how you respond to RTI.