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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The work samples submitted by the school were not good. However, some of the project work has been quite good. But the projects are not 'worksheets'. Given the 3rd grade genEd program offers no particular opportunity or worksheets that allow gifted demonstration, I would have taken the projects and represented that on one sheet. For example, my kid did an amazing book on a historical figure. Pages could have easily been shrunk with 4 pages to represent some gifted thinking about social injustice. I take it that the school doesn't have the time to do that. But shouldn't the school provide work that enables kids to demonstrate giftedness? The work is too simple to get work samples.

Any help to understand what schools submit as good examples would be appreciated. I did see the examples in the Level IV orientation. My kid never gets anything close to that. There is no opportunity to show abstract thinking.[/quote]

Teacher here. What samples were included? The AART is very specific on what types of samples to include. [/quote]

one sample was to pick a place  to visit and one visited and provided lines to fill out on the place and why. DD’s reply talked about visiting family for one and some other facts. Nothing stellar. Not a lot of space provided to write a full essay. If you ask me the question straight up as an adult, mine would  similar. If you said my acceptance to AAP depends on the creativity of the response, I would invent some elaborate response about time travel. It’s like the math problem someone else posted and applying an alternative algorithm to be gifted. Uh if you ask me what 2 plus 2 is, I would say 4. If you tell me come up with a new algorithm, I would say (3-1) + (3-1)  =4 …. It’s screwy!!! These are not work samples that support the application.[/quote]

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