Interventions are systematic changes made to an educational environment. My Learning Partners provides you with interventions based on their analysis of each student's progress. We group interventions into consequence interventions and antecedent interventions. Consequence interventions occur following a behavior while antecedent interventions are present before the behavior occurs. The consequence intervention we use primarily is positive reinforcement. Using punishers often causes sneaky behavior from students and negative reinforcers usually result in students being manipulative.
Most commonly, we look to antecedent interventions first. If a student's growth rate requires fine tuning, the antecedent intervention might be adjusting the breadth of the materials or changing a teaching strategy. Once an intervention is in place, we measure its effectiveness through the student’s one minute daily timings by analyzing the slope of the learning rate.
When consequence interventions are used with students, having some type of point system in place is recommended. At College Nannies and Tutors the Reward Store can be used as a consequence intervention. This helps to reinforce changes in your student’s learning. Receiving 10 extra bonus points for scoring at or above a specified level on daily timings over the next three days, is an example of a consequence intervention. Whenever an intervention is implemented, it is recorded and its effectiveness is assessed. This provides a history of effective and ineffective interventions for each student.