Hello educators. I would like your opinion on reading intervention programs - does anyone have experience of pull-out programs or in-classroom programs - I'm wondering what you think are the advantages and/or disadvantages to each. Any advice or thoughts you have on the topic would be much appreciated. Here is an article regarding the subject: https://www.voyagersopris.com/vsl/blog/the-difference-between-push-in-and-pull-out-reading-interventions
It depends. Sometimes you are taking out students from a teacher that is great at teaching reading and putting students in the hands of someone who knows less about teaching reading than that teacher. Therefore, not only do the children have the emotional challenge of feeling the stigma of going to a classroom with special help, they get inferior instruction. This is getting to be more common as government Title 1 programs are trying to save on costs. In fairness, sometimes the opposite is true. Some teachers are only so-so in their methods in teaching students who struggle in reading. They are then put with an interventionist has made it his/her passion to know how to best teach struggling readers. It is a mixed bag. What to do? Schools must be very choosy on who they hire as educators in reading intervention. If they can't get good ones, then the students are better off staying in the classroom.
Seconding @readingrules12 about teachers. It also depends on the curriculum being used and time allotted for intervention. I taught intervention with F&P’s LLI (hated it) as pull out intervention and used 95% groups the last few years which is evidence based. My first year using 95% I never had enough time for a whole lesson, so I don’t know how effective I was. This year I actually have solid time set aside specifically for intervention and students switch rooms based on the skill they’re working on. We have 8 teachers working with groups during our grade level tier time, all of whom have been trained on 95% Groups and have had LETRS training. With F&P it didn’t matter how effective I was, the curriculum was garbage. With 95%, even someone untrained can teach it with fidelity because it’s so easy to follow. I know all of my students are getting both quality instruction and working with highly qualified teachers.
