Solution-Focused Rti - by Linda Metcalf (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Solution-Focused RTI provides an effective approach to Response-to-Intervention using a "solution-focused" method, which emphasizes a student's strengths rather than his or her weaknesses. This important book guides educators to identify exceptions to students' learning problems and design personalized interventions that can help those students succeed. In this book Linda Metcalf provides teachers with the basic building blocks of the solution-focused approach and offers step-by-step guidelines for identifying exceptions, designing interventions, and implementing a three-tiered Response-to-Intervention process.

• Shows how to implement RTI using the positive and personalized "solution-focused" method
• Linda Metcalf is the author of seven books, including Counseling Toward Solutions, Second Edition
• Offers an innovative, collaborative approach between teachers, students, and parents
• Includes reproducible forms for teachers and students

This practical book helps teachers pinpoint research-based intervention strategies that work.

From the Back Cover

Solution-Focused RTI

Often educators find the Response-to-Intervention (RTI) process too complicated to put into practice. This important book provides an effective approach to RTI that draws on a proven "solution-focused" method. This positive approach generates less work to implement and emphasizes a student's strengths rather than his or her weaknesses.

Solution-Focused RTI shows how to identify exceptions to students' learning problems and design personalized interventions to help those students succeed. Metcalf provides educators with the basic building blocks of the solution-focused approach and step-by-step guidelines for implementing a three-tiered RTI process.

• Engage students and parents in a process that is respectful, collaborative, and hopeful
• Decrease paperwork
• Increase morale among teachers through teamwork
• Motivate students by enlisting their ideas
• Involve parents by making them experts on their own child

This groundbreaking book promotes collaboration among teachers, parents, and students, identifying what has worked, how it worked, and what to do to achieve success.

". . .A refreshing approach to RTI. Metcalf offers a clear, jargon-free perspective that focuses on identifying and building on the strengths of students. It is chock full of clear illustrations, real-world vignettes, and examples of school-based interventions that are applicable to all students."
--Bob Bertolino, Ph.D., associate professor, Maryville University, senior clinical advisor, Youth In Need, Inc.

"Metcalf describes actual elementary, middle, and high-school situations, drawing together the latest research and practice from RTI and solution-focused strategies, and showing how teachers, administrators, and school counselors can collaborate to make classrooms places of joy, purpose, caring, and collaboration."
--Loretta Whitson, executive director, California School Counselors Association

About the Author

Linda Metcalf, M.Ed., Ph.D., a former classroom teacher and school counselor, is a professor and the director of School Counseling at Texas Wesleyan University. She is the author of seven books, including Counseling Toward Solutions, Second Edition from Jossey-Bass. Metcalf presents workshops on the solution-focused approach across the United States and internationally.