Program Development - Assignment
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Added on 2019-10-31
Program Development - Assignment
Added on 2019-10-31
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Running Head: PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT 1Program Development in Students(Name)(Institutional Affiliation)
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT 2Educational Program development is the process of coming up with individualized specific procedures to help specific group of students such as those with learning disabilities or any other special need such as behavioral problems. This is done in an effort to bring about an improvement in the outcomes of such students and ensure they are not left behind in activities such as mathematical and reading skills (Fuchs 2014, Hoover 2011 and Danielson 2014). It is also done in an effort to prevent such students from dropping out of school before graduating as well as lacking employment after school. Program development is done in several steps. First, the National Assessment for Education Progress (NAEP) does a general research so as to come up with a statistic concerning the number of students with problems in basic skills such as reading, mathematical and discipline problems. (Schiff, 2012).The students are then put through a multitier system that seeks to help them both academically and discipline wise. The initiatives include the Response To Intervention (RTI) andPositive Behavior Intervention and Supports, PBIS, both of which focus on helping struggling students improve, whether disabled or not. RTI also gives teachers sure ways of identifying disabled students. It divides services into multi tiers so as to enable the teachers be more specific with the students’ needs. Tier 1 is for all students and it is done in the mainstream classes and it gives general instructions and routines. Tier 2 is specific instructions for smaller groups and the group sessions are usually led by a specially trained adult. The tier 2 program help determine whether the students in question should go to tier 1 or whether they need a more intense and individualized training method and intervention (In Briesch, 2016).It was noted that the primary grade students respond better to RTI compared to older students. There is however a group of students with unique learning disabilities and intense behavioral problems and they cannot be helped by such initiatives. For them, intensive academic
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