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[quote=Anonymous]To get your K child included in GIA, I think you need to show scores to from a standardized test like Stanford-Binet/WISC/Woodcock and Johnson/NNAT. ACPS conducts NNAT on all first graders and students are usually placed in the Spring of their first grade year. For lower elementary, there is pull-out differentiation if the school has dedicated TAG staff. For 4th and 5th grade, if a school has dedicated TAG staff, differentiated instruction in math and language arts is also pull out. If the TAG positions are vacant, it is up to the classroom teacher. Maybe classroom teachers do not differentiate in the name of equity but I doubt that is actually an endorsed approach. Maybe classroom teachers just don’t have the time or energy to differentiate but that’s different than the school refusing to provide appropriate instruction because it is inequitable. Personally, I think it is not acceptable to not provide differentiated instruction for students who are behind in math and language arts but it does not need to be done by the classroom teacher but rather, a specialist. It may be an unmet need in schools that cannot fill a specialist position where the teacher has expertise in TAG instruction and also speaks Spanish/Arabic/Amharic for instance.
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