Intervention
TIME is committed to providing evidence-based intervention (EBI) programs to students, families, and schools, with the goal of enhancing the quality of education for all students. EBI is based upon the best available research delivered with consideration of a student’s unique characteristics, language, culture, and values.
TIME is proud to be a part of helping schools provide services for children with special needs. Specially designed interventions programs are provided for students in need of special education. We work together as a team to support schools and parents with the implementation of a plan to meet the challenges facing children who have been identified as having a disability.
Our intervention programs are designed to be provided to a wide range of students: average students, gifted students, students who may have learning disabilities such as dyslexia, and students with challenges in attention or behavior. The goals of the intervention plan are to address and remediate whatever is interfering with a student reaching his or her highest level of proficiency.
Does your child/student require an intervention program?
Ask yourself the following questions: Does my child/student:
Perform at grade level? If not, what needs to get done?
Appear inattentive or impulsive?
Have trouble following school rules?
Have difficulty hearing or applying letter sounds when speaking, reading, or spelling?
Have difficulty forming letters or writing legibly?
Have difficulty solving math problems?
Have difficulty sitting still in a chair?
Appear unhappy or discontent with school?
Been identified by the teacher as a student who is struggling?
Views school as a negative experience?
If you answered "yes" to one or more of the questions above, we can help you.
Virtual Reading Coach (VRC)
VRC is innovative Technology for Academic Success. It improves students’ reading performance by assessing reading abilities, developing an individual student syllabus, differentiating instruction, and providing mastery-based activities to address reading gaps.
Students
Interactive lessons with media-rich content.
Direct, explicit, and systematic instruction.
Scaffolded instruction and remediation.
Virtual reading specialists and speech pathologists.
Self-paced and mastery-based instruction.
Immediate and specific feedback.
Teachers & Administrators
Real-time access to reports and student data.
Instructional delivery that is automated and adaptive.
Program Design and Methods
VRC teaches students to comprehend grade level text and to read that text fluently. An VRC student first becomes proficient in phonological awareness and phonics skills if needed. When a student demonstrates accurate decoding skills, he also receives vocabulary and grammar and meaning instruction.
Finally, VRC delivers explicitly fluency training to improve silent reading rate. Improvement in comprehension and fluency are simultaneous goals. The interactive activities help students stay focused and accelerate their progress.VRC is Embedded Teacher Intelligence using methods and strategies of successful reading teachers and speech pathologists. Each student works toward 100% mastery at his or her own pace.
Who should use VRC?
Virtual Reading Coach is beneficial to students within a wide range of proficiency levels. VRC is highly appropriate for Struggling Readers, English Language Learners, Teen and Adult Learners and Accelerated Learners.
Fluent Reading Trainer (FLRT)
Improve Fluency and Comprehension Skills in Hours, Not Years FLRT systematically increases reading speed and reading comprehension. Fluent readers comprehend more of what they read and find reading more enjoyable.
FLRT:
Enables students to progress at their own pace and level
Provides reading practice with narrative and expository texts
Includes a library of over 1,000 stories, levels K-12
Provides comprehension questions based upon Common Core Standards
Adapts speed and practice to meet the needs of all learners
Who should use FLRT?
FLRT is appropriate for general education students who have basic decoding and word recognition skills and need to improve reading fluency and develop a broader range of comprehension strategies.
Virtual Reading Coach Teacher Companion
VRC Teacher Companion is designed to:
Fill gaps in teacher knowledge.
Provide professional development and continuing education opportunities.
Enable every teacher to deliver research-based reading instruction.
Demonstrate scientifically-based reading instruction using the lessons and activities provided in Virtual Reading Coach (VRC).
Why should schools implement VRC Teacher Companion professional development?
Unaddressed reading difficulties affect students at every grade level. VRC Teacher Companion enables teachers to understand and deliver explicit and systematic instruction.
Teachers who participate in this interactive professional development program will be able to meet the educational literacy needs of all their students.
Administrators can offer professional development and continuing education credits to teachers who participate.
VRC Teacher Companion extends teacher knowledge of research-based best practices. It is web-based and contains eight modules:
Introduction
Phonemic awareness
Phonics
Grammar for meaning
Fluency
Vocabulary
Comprehension strategies
Conclusion
Phonic Reading Lessons
Phonic Reading Lessons
Phonic Reading Lessons program consists of two-volumes: Skills and Practice, and contains one hundred lessons. Phonic Reading Lessons are: (a) systematic and provides a step-by-step procedure for teaching phonics and reinforcing grapheme–phoneme relationships, (b) easy for teachers to learn, and (c) appropriate for older students.
The sounds are introduced one at a time in the Skills book in a variety of words so that the student develops an automatic response to each symbol. The Practice book supports and reinforces the lessons from the Skills book through the use of story reading and spelling practice. As a supplement to reading, the student is asked to write words while carefully pronouncing each sound. Thus, the student learns how to blend, segment, and sequence sounds and represent these sounds with the most common graphemes.
Creative Ways of Teaching Mathematics
Creative Ways of Teaching Mathematics Program is designed based on more than 20 years of research, experimentation, and experience. At TIME, we believe that math is another way to understand and make sense of the world, much like language. Like words, math is used everywhere and is an integral part of everyday life. What exactly is math? Simply put, math is the observation, identification, description and explanation of numbers, space, relation, and order. Counting, measuring, problem solving, reasoning, and identifying shapes and patterns are the activities of math.
Creative Ways of Teaching Mathematics program contain the following sections:
Strategies for Teaching Math Facts
Money and Time
Number and Place Value: Developing "Number Sense"
The Four Operations: Basic Concepts, Basic Facts
Whole Number Computation
Rational Numbers: Early Concept Work with Fractions and Decimals
Applications