APS: G&T program ?

[Anonymous]

How does APS handle differentiation for G&T kids ?

[Anonymous]

An extra worksheet or two.

[Anonymous]

It is worthless, former ASFS parent. Hire your own tutor or Mathnasium if you want advanement beyond school. It literally was a worksheet or 2 a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is worthless, former ASFS parent. Hire your own tutor or Mathnasium if you want advanement beyond school. It literally was a worksheet or 2 a week.

It changes more in high school, but nothing in ES, and limited in MS without outside help.

[Anonymous]

I’m sure it varies between schools and teachers. For my kid a lot of the differentiation in ES was in the form of enrichment, extension, and rubric activities/choices that were technically available to any student but teachers guided or required the identified students to choose them.

Middle schools now offer choices of standard or advanced core classes plus high school level classes, and high schools have a variety of intensified offerings.

[Anonymous]

DP. APS parent. Considering moving to Fairfax for their gifted program but I don’t understand it. Sounds like different schools have different programs called AAP?

[Anonymous]

APS basically does “push in” rather than “pull out” for gifted. There is one gifted teacher per school who works with classroom teachers to offer differentiated work. They cluster groups of gifted kids in classes together (used to be clusters of 5; now 10). As mentioned above, they now offer advanced classes in MS. By high school, kids can take intensified, AP, IB, dual enrollment classes.

To the PP asking about FCPS AAP, there is a whole forum about that on DCUM you can check out. Basically they track kids to different schools/programs starting in 3rd grade.

[Anonymous]

Like others said it varies by school. We actually had good experiences at both elementary schools we attended. It was mostly independent study type work and partner work with kids on similar level. We are in 6th grade now so no advanced classes until next year. Pre-algebra has been easy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS basically does “push in” rather than “pull out” for gifted. There is one gifted teacher per school who works with classroom teachers to offer differentiated work. They cluster groups of gifted kids in classes together (used to be clusters of 5; now 10). As mentioned above, they now offer advanced classes in MS. By high school, kids can take intensified, AP, IB, dual enrollment classes.

To the PP asking about FCPS AAP, there is a whole forum about that on DCUM you can check out. Basically they track kids to different schools/programs starting in 3rd grade.

The first paragraph above is our experience too. But it is just one “advanced academics coach” per school, and APS doesn’t provide subs for them. So if they’re out, oh well.

[Anonymous]

We are at an elementary where our kid gets pulled out a couple times a week (1x a week per subject usually) but it’s a smaller school. We haven’t found it to be nothing.

In general it’s a more push in model in APS.

[Anonymous]

It’s extra worksheets at our school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are at an elementary where our kid gets pulled out a couple times a week (1x a week per subject usually) but it’s a smaller school. We haven’t found it to be nothing.

In general it’s a more push in model in APS.

Which school? We were told pull out isn’t an option in APS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are at an elementary where our kid gets pulled out a couple times a week (1x a week per subject usually) but it’s a smaller school. We haven’t found it to be nothing.

In general it’s a more push in model in APS.

Which school? We were told pull out isn’t an option in APS.

Pull out is not supposed to be an option, but there are some schools/staff members that don't play by the rules and make the other schools look like they aren't providing anything to advanced learners. Most schools are abiding by the model of the push-in/collaborative model, but there's always a few that march the the beat of their own drum even when it is not seen as best practices in education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are at an elementary where our kid gets pulled out a couple times a week (1x a week per subject usually) but it’s a smaller school. We haven’t found it to be nothing.

In general it’s a more push in model in APS.

Which school? We were told pull out isn’t an option in APS.

Pull out is not supposed to be an option, but there are some schools/staff members that don't play by the rules and make the other schools look like they aren't providing anything to advanced learners. Most schools are abiding by the model of the push-in/collaborative model, but there's always a few that march the the beat of their own drum even when it is not seen as best practices in education.

It looks like the other schools aren’t providing anything because they aren’t. APS does not care about advanced learners, it’s just not a priority.

[Anonymous]

It looks like the other schools aren’t providing anything because they aren’t. APS does not care about advanced learners, it’s just not a priority.
Couldn't agree more. The tiny bit of GT that was there previously was removed after COVID. We voted with our feet and went elsewhere.