Student Intervention Strategies


    While classroom intervention strategies are in place to help students with particular needs, they typically are good for a wide range of students and benefit all.  Intervention that focuses on a particular student is used when a student has needs beyond what differentiated instruction can address. Typically these are individualized strategies, and are put in place when student, teacher, and parents come together to address a students specific need, or behavior, that may be contributing to a lack of progress in the classroom.

    With smaller class sizes Saint Bernard's teachers are fortunate to be able to both differentiate, and for the most part also have the training, ability and support to put specific, individualized interventions into place should a reasonable need arise. 

    Examples of a student intervention would be:

•  providing the student colored 'blocking' pages to place over reading materials in order to improve reading 
•  a subtle signal devised between teacher and student which 'cues' the student to re-focus without having to refocus him  verbally in front of the entire class.