Course Number: | EDU 5515 C04 |
Instructor: | Allison Cosey |
Location: | Online |
Dates and Times: |
July 11 - August 15, 2023. Zoom Meetings- Tuesdays 9:30-11:30 am. |
Credits: | 3 Graduate Credits |
Tuition: | $1,195 |
Tiered intervention practices have been brought to the forefront in Vermont’s education system. Act 173 and VTmtss have thoughtfully brought change to systems throughout the state to meet the needs of our struggling students. These changes have forced educators and systems to engage in a variety of learning around new programs, curriculums, teaching methods, time management, and how to effectively serve our students within an ever-changing world. This course aims to look at intervention practices through a problem-solving approach from start to finish. Beginning with screening for needs to identify specific skill deficits and moving into designing interventions, we then move onto how to make needed changes to plans, what and how to progress monitor, how to interpret the data, and the most important part- what does this all mean for our students? We will take a comprehensive look at how an intervention is formulated, carried out with integrity, and how the data that is collected can support decision making. Students will walk away from this course with an understanding of how to develop and carry out an intervention plan that aligns with VTmtss and Act 173.
Audience: All educators K-8; classroom teachers, academic interventionists, EST coordinators, school counselors, school psychologists, special educators, administration, and anyone who is hoping to better understand how to put intervention practices into place.
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Allison Cosey, M.S., C.A.S.
Allison graduated from the University at Albany in 2016 with a Master's in Educational Psychology and Methodology and in 2018 with a Certificate of Advanced Study in School Psychology. Since then, she had made her career and home in Vermont, currently working in Slate Valley Unified School District. In addition to the traditional assessment role of a school psychologist, she has worked alongside district administration in the reshaping of the school's MTSS/EST systems. She found a passion early on in her studies in the area of early intervention of learning and social-emotional needs and continues to pursue this area in hopes to help more students feel successful in school and in life.
Required Texts are not included in the course tuition.
July 18th: Universal Screening Within a Response-to-Intervention Model
July 25th: Distinguishing Between Tier 2 and Tier 3 Instruction in Order to Support Implementation of RTI
August 1st: Getting “SMART” about Implementing Multi-Tiered Systems of Support to Promote School Mental Health - PMC
August 8th: The Taxonomy of Intervention Intensity
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