Comments on: Our Gifted Testing Experience – Part 2 (for 1st grade)

By: najia nishat uddin

najia nishat uddin — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:25:18 +0000

i want my child to be a talented kid cause she needs more practice

By: J Smith

J Smith — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:36:30 +0000

Meg, each state and sometimes each school district within that state has it’s own guidelines for “giftedness”. For example, they may accept only “intellectually gifted” children, only “creatively gifted” children or both. This would determine the type of program that they teach.

By: cpsobsessed

cpsobsessed — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:55:48 +0000

Jem, that is a tough one. Is the boring school your neighborhood school? You could always go back….

By: jem

jem — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:27:08 +0000

Our child was just accepted into gifted program for 2nd grade, we are really stuggling with decisions to pull her from boring school where she is happy but bored crapless into new school where she wont be the smartest one anymore.

By: liz

liz — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:08:24 +0000

I am so with you on the IIT/GEAP people thing. They are accomodating and awesome!

By: cpsobsessed

cpsobsessed — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:52:19 +0000

Very good point! I’m going to write a post about that — coming soon.

By: Meg

Meg — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:10:13 +0000

It’s interesting there are no numbers or letters on the test. Especially so, since the gifted program my daughter attended (for 2 months before I pulled her out) worked out of a 2nd grade math book. My point is that if they are testing pure intelligence, and not learned skills, the why did that school assume that the 1st graders who qualified for the gifted program were prepared to do 2nd grade math? Mine was not. This particular school has NO gifted kindergarten where they might have gained the 1st grade math skills. When I complained that my kid had not had 1any st grade math instruction, and so was not understanding their math, I was told there was not much they could do! When my daughter asked for math help in class, she was told “Use a resource”, we want independent learners. I’m glad the gifted program works for some, but for us it was a horrible experience. Other parents complained about the math and 1st graders were copying off each other! Her score qualified her for the program, and she was reading at 3rd grade level, but I pulled her out and put her back in Catholic school where they have to listen to you because youre paying for it. Enjoy your blog. If you want to know which school this was, let me know!