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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wondering.. why the MAP cut off is 80th percentile but the ela and math assessment scores need to be a 5 to meet the criteria? Meaning you gave to score 💯 on the assessments.. weird.[/quote]

It’s a good thing because many students test differently and many more  are above 80%. The assessments really separate the kids. It’s pretty easy to do and you don’t need the behavior assessments if your child hit all academic indicators (5/5 on assessments, high dibels and map).

I don’t even know why they have behavioral checklists they should just do academic (Increase map criteria to 95% and all GT students have to get 5/5 on assessments). [/quote]

The behavior checklist is actually a critical part of identifying GT students vs just academically advance students.  Often GT persons exhibit different behaviors and emotional regulation that doesn’t align with the rest of their profile. They also can have poor academic scores but really high test scores which may indicate that they are bored in class.  Can you imagine if you’re a 7yr that can do HS math but you have to sit still and pay attention while kids learn addition?

Most of what schools do is just identify the academically advance kids (including the gifted) but little is actually done to engage gifted students.

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What are on behavior checklists? My special need kid has IEP for behavior problem. My child will be 2nd grader in the fall. Do they give out GT notification letter in 2nd grade 4th quarter? I will have my kid's private neuropsychoical testing results in the fall (that includes IQ test), should I share that with the school IEP team? Would that be helpful for GT or ELA/Math placement later? [/quote]

If they hit the cutoffs for all 4 academic items they don't need any behavior checklists. Otherwise they need at least 3 academic and 1 behavioral but the behavioral one could come room the parent input form.

Again, my issue is that I think it's silly to combine reading and math for this because... that's not how it works in real life, and secondarily, I find the DIBELS assessment kind of silly, but it also seems like for 2nd graders this doesn't matter for much... I assume my kid will still get "math enrichment" (which is really very minimal) given that she scores 99th percentile on the math MAP.[/quote]

Also, since I realize I didn't answer you... yes, the notification is 4th quarter of 2nd grade, but if you meet some of the indicators but not all, you get rescreened in grades 3, 5, 7 and considered for enrichment and acceleration at your local school. I don’t think you can get them to include other criteria (like an IQ test), but you can ask. I think the GT designation gets used for CES? We're not really interested in moving to a different school, so for us, the only real enrichment/acceleration is Compacted Math starting in 4th grade. Which is a separate process and doesn't include reading scores.[/quote]

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