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The Comprehensive Intervention Model (CIM) Teacher is a well-coordinated, response to intervention seamless design for providing intervention services to struggling readers. The CIM is a systemic model for reversing the reading failures of struggling readers through layered interventions, including differentiated classroom instruction and supplemental interventions in small groups or one-to-one. Each intervention includes direct instruction in the areas of phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. The system goal of the CIM is to change the achievement profile of a school by providing research-based interventions that increase the literacy levels of low-performing children,
and training and professional development for teachers that increase their knowledge and expertise in teaching the lowest performing children.
The year long, apprenticeship training involves teachers in both clinical class sessions and side by side coaching from the Comprehensive Intervention Model facilitator. Teachers enroll in 7965 in both fall and spring of an academic year for a total of 6 credit hours.
Teachers must hold a bachelor’s degree for participation in this course.
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