GT program at Chevy Chase Elementary

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have any information on the GT program? I thought it was going to be out of the box thinking but it's rote. The teacher dictates what the child does and there isn't any room for creative thinking.

[Anonymous]

What information are you looking for? It sounds like you have a child there now.

[Anonymous]

I think you should wait a bit longer into the year..when the long term projects start. We are not at that center but there is lots of creativity involved.

[Anonymous]

I have heard others voice the same complaint about the GT program at CCES. The school in general does not foster creativity. It's more cookie cutter and teaching to the test.

[Anonymous]

When my child attend the HGC at CCES only a few years ago, the teachers were very flexible. Kids turned in all kinds of projects to get credit for assignments. One kid was into doing stop motion video for her assignments. My kid, who was quite far ahead in one area, was allowed to skip sections of material she knew and make up her own projects and do her own research and present them to the kids. Sometimes she made videos, sometimes she made quiz shows, sometimes she did oral presentations. I can't imagine saying that the HGC is "cookie cutter" and "teaching to the test". In fact, most of these kids are years beyond the "test". Because of this, it is true that they get a review before the MSAs, like the rest of the school, but theirs is general pretty brief. If you are taking 7th grade math, it does help to go back and review what MCPS says about which kinds of graphs are best for which kinds of data displays, for example. Or review probability, which doesn't appear often in the curriculum over the years.