Special Education Instructor Question:

The multi-tiered approach is a teaching model that enables the teachers to pay attention to needs of all the students in the classroom. The approach divides the needs onto three tiers in shape of a pyramid, beginning form universal needs, moving up to the second tier offering group targeted interventions to enable better learning. While the top tier addresses intensive individual needs and call for individual interventions through IEPs. It is usually implemented when resistance to intervention surfaces.