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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At the elementary level, testing into gifted services is done by the individual elementary school. They will do an assessment for a variety of subject areas, and a determination of giftedness is made for each individual subject area. So, for instance, you might have a child who is deemed gifted in math and science, but not in reading or social studies (or vice versa, or any other combination); a child can also be deemed gifted in all subject areas. How gifted services are delivered can vary by elementary school, but APS policy is for push-in rather than pull-out. At our elementary school, this means the gifted services teacher periodically comes into each classroom and does lessons is various subject areas for the entire class, and then provides some one-on-one attention to children receiving gifted services to supplement the lesson. Additional supplementation materials are given to the classroom teacher to give to children receiving gifted services for their subject areas.[/quote]

At what grade does the testing occur?[/quote]

I'm not sure that the process is the same at all APS elementary schools, but at our school class-wide testing of all students is done at the beginning of second grade via the NNAT2. If your child scores sufficiently highly on the test, they are automatically evaluated for gifted services. Before that (or after, even if the NNAT2 score wasn't high enough), a teacher can refer a child for evaluation for gifted services if they feel the child would benefit from it, and parents can refer their child for evaluation as well. [/quote]

Being Arlington, I'm guessing there's a lot of parents referring their own kids.[/quote]

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