What information should I include when I add a Phase Change in Progress Monitoring?

What information should I include when I add a Phase Change in Progress Monitoring?

Include the date the adjustment was made and a brief narrative statement that describes what was adjusted, and why the change was necessary. 

Include a level of detail that will inform fellow educators, the student’s family, and other interested parties about changes in the instructional approach used to support the student’s performance 

Date Instructional Adjustment was Initialized

It is important to accurately reflect when the change was made. Doing this promptly makes it easier to track any change in the student’s performance.

Descriptive Narrative of Instructional Adjustment

There are three different methods most commonly used to intensify or individualize an instructional intervention.  

Change Intervention Dosage or Time 

  1. Frequency of interventions:  Increasing the number of weekly intervention sessions from two to four 
  2. Length of instructional sessions: Increasing the length of individual intervention sessions from 30 minutes to 45 minutes per session
  3. Duration of the intervention: Increasing the number of weeks the intervention lasts from 10 to 20

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Change the Learning Environment to Promote Attention and Engagement

  1. Reducing group size: Decreasing the number of students from six to four or fewer
  2. Grouping students with similar abilities: Use homogenous grouping rather than grouping students of varying abilities (heterogeneous grouping)
  3. Reducing classroom distractions: Promote engagement by reducing noise and other environmental distractions  


Modify Delivery of Instruction 

  1. Instructional approach
    1. Systematic and Explicit Instruction
    2. Precise, simple, and replicable language
  2. Student response
    1. Provide frequent opportunities for students to respond
    2. Opportunities to practice, build fluency, and review
  3. Teacher feedback and error correction 
    1. Explain why the answer was incorrect
    2. Model the correct response
    3. Ask the student to provide a correct response before moving on
    4. Ask the student to explain his or her process for arriving at the correct answer (i.e., self-talk)
    5. Recheck for correct answers later in the lesson
The narrative explains the adjustments and the reasoning behind them.  It shares key information useful to fellow educators, the student's family, and other interested parties.