Interventions in the Classroom

Intervention is a word that will strike fear into teachers.

They will run and hide behind their classroom doors.

Some will just nod their heads when asked if they are completing interventions.

Why does the word 'intervention' just scare us??  We are TEACHERS....we are not scared of anything!!

Now I will admit that it did scare me at the beginning, too!

I just knew it would be a lot of work....

How would I fit this in my day....

What if I do all this and the students don't benefit from it....

All of this was a big concern to me.  So, what I did was order a BIG diet coke (with vanilla) and just went for it. 

I started with my supplies of a binders, tabs, three hole puncher, sheet protectors, and lots and lots of paper.

I did check to make sure my printer ink was in good condition.

I was fortunate enough to have access to a computer program that came with some interventions to get me started.  I printed them all off, organized them by skill and content (comprehension, grammar, spelling, and etc).

This gave me a great start, but then I realized I was missing skills. 

So, then I bought out the heavy equipment....the Internet.  I searched for great website where I would find great interventions.  This was not an easy or cheap task.  I did pay for subscriptions to some website (but it was so worth it).  I would print the interventions off and add them to the binder.

After two years in the computer lab, I have now quite a collection of interventions and feel very confident when people ask have I been doing my interventions.  My head nods and my hand is raised real high!!

The video below shows how I do my interventions in my classroom.  It is not as bad as it seems and remember....you just need you BIG diet coke (with vanilla) and your supplies!!

Good Luck!