The Armory offers a Saturday morning enrichment program for students pre-k- 6th grade. These students show up bright and early to participate in an array of educational activities. Onc of the programs is called ‘Around the World in Stories”. This program encourages students to do just that. They begin by picking out a book that encaptures a place somewhere in the world, like the Eiffel Tower in Paris. After picking the book they spend the next hour, and subsequent saturdays, reading through it, painting a picture based off of it, and then creating a poem based off of their picture. This process is called Picturing Writing. Students then repeat this process a few times in order to create a book which showcases their paintings and poems. To some, this Saturday morning program might be considered intervention. However, I do not believe that the Armory is a form of intervention. Based off of some articles as well as actually taking part doing one on one intervention, this to me seems more like some Saturday fun with a hint of school added in. That is not to say that the Armory is not a great learning experience. For the participants both elementary school students and Mount students, it is a wonderful …show more content…
“Intensive intervention is provided in a smaller-group setting of one to three students or more frequently than in targeted instruction to meet the individual needs of students; it is provided to students in addition to primary instruction” (The IRIS Center, 2015). The Armory although may appear like it is intervention since it is outside the classroom and one on one, it is not targeted instruction to meet the individual needs of the students. Often the reason students need intervention is because they need extra help in a specific area, therefore since this instruction is very general and not targeted I do not think the Armory is a form of