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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do agree FCPS does try to look beyond the scores.  They look for feedback from several teachers with regards to a child and what potential they are showing in the classroom.  My DC was one that got in last year with both test scores below the pool cut off, but a very high GBRS and excellent work samples.  She is THRIVING in AAP and I am so thankful to her teachers that identified her as needing more than the general education curriculum and not just writing her off because her scores were a little below the cutoff.  [b]DC tells me all the time about half of the kids in her AAP class don't do their classwork on time, or their homework, constantly goof off, etc[/b].  I'm sure plenty of those kids had much higher test scores than she did.  However, she is completing her work on time, producing great work, and thriving; again, with probably lower test scores.

The Board is clearly doing their job looking beyond the test scores.  Test scores truly are only one piece to the puzzle but there is so much more when it comes to measuring a child's academic potential - drive, determination, curiosity, motivation to learn and apply new material, a creative or "think outside the box" mind, etc., etc.

I'm honestly glad to see the Board seems to be even going a little lower this year in terms of test scores, if the child is proving themselves capable on a daily basis in the classroom.  Many children with a high level of determination and drive will thrive and do well in FCPS AAP program.[/quote]

But thinking outside the box is what can and will change our world.  It is what really stands out in a classroom.  When I ask a question in a classroom, it is very evident when a black and white type or kid answers the question and when a kid who thinks outside the box answers the question.  I'm a teacher AND have two in AAP. One of my kids is highly gifted.  My highly gifted kid has always answered questions completed differently than my more black and white child.  Both kids are compliant, motivated, well behaved, driven, curious, etc.  BUT it is HOW my highly gifted kid assimilitates the materials he is given.  I'm guessing your child is a good student, memorizes easily, studies, cares about grades, etc.  My kids are the same...but my highly gifted child just sees the world differently.  He always has. From the age of 2 he would answer questions differently.  When his sibling started aap he'd be answering her math questions when he was still in kindergarten. he understands why things happen or can make connections, etc.

Oh, and when my kids come home and blab about who isn't doing their work at school, I tell them to myob.  [/quote]

Um...I think she the poster did highlight "think outside the box" is an important trait to look for.  You completely missed the point.[/quote]

Typically, a kid who does well on these tests is a think outside the box kid, though.  It is a kid who can see things a different way, esp. with a test like the NNAT and certain parts of the cogat.  That is the point.  If you were to fill in a missing piece of a puzzle and it isn't immediately clear to you what the piece was that was missing, you're not that kind of a thinker.[/quote]

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