Educational Intervention Strategies

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Intervention strategies are employed when a student is falling behind academically or has behavioral issues in class. Teachers employ intervention strategies during the course of the school day to either help redirect behavior, focus attention or to help with school work. Intervention strategies comes in many different forms. Teachers should keep track of the issues facing a student, use appropriate strategies and monitor the outcome of the strategies used.
  • Intervention for Hyperactive Students
Some students may have issues with being able to quiet at appropriate times or even staying in their chairs during lesson times. Simple interventions that can be employed for these students are creating cards. Give the student five laminated cards. Each time the student speaks out of turn or gets out of their seat a card must be given to the teacher. Positive feedback must be given when the student keeps all of his or her cards for the day. If the student loses all his or her cards there should be a repercussion such as a note to the parents or five minutes reduction in recess time. This helps the student to self monitor his behavior.
  • Students With Attention Disorders
Students that have problems focusing in class can be difficult. They tend to be unorganized and require instructions to be repeated multiple times. Interventions for these students can be planners where they must write down all the assignments for the day. Breaking assignments into smaller pieces for these students can be very beneficial. Instead of giving five steps to the student, provide one step and do not provide additional steps until the one step is completed. Establish daily routines for consistency and stick with it. Routines and procedures can help maintain focus for these children.
  • School Work and Lesson Interventions
If a student is struggling with a subject, interventions can be made to help that student along. For example, if a story problem requires three steps to complete, an intervention strategy may reduce the problem to one or two steps for the child who is struggling. Focus on getting the student to produce quality work and not quantity. Students may also have difficulty taking verbal information provided during a lesson and applying it to the work assigned. These students may benefit by reading the notes that go along with the lesson. The key is to be flexible in both the lessons provided and school work that is to be completed.
  • Testing Interventions
Certain students may have issues taking tests. Interventions for these students may require to reduce the length of the test. Other strategies are to have someone read the test questions to the student. Some students may require more time to be able to take the test. The intervention used should match the student's level and help him to achieve to his highest ability.

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