A few students may need more intensive support and instruction. These are most effective when the school also has universal and targeted support systems in place. The focus of Tier 3 is on staff intervening early to support their students. Tier 3 interventions are built upon the foundations of strong universal support.
Key features include:
- team based functional behavioural assessment
- linking academic and behavioural performance
- personalised interventions that focus on prevention
- intensive instruction and support to reduce the frequency of behaviour
- strategies for enhancing specific feedback
- the effective use of consequences
- use of data for decision making.