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It should be test scores and grades, plus a category where teachers can recommend kids who don't have the scores and grades.  AAP really doesn't require any more creative thinking than Gen Ed.  People are hung up on creative thinking and exhibiting the traits the GBRS asks about when the program really is just an honors program.  Until FCPS starts actually administering it as a gifted program, the real question is whether a kid can do accelerated work, not if he exhibits gifted behavior.  [/quote]

Except you’re forgetting one thing -the AAP curriculum isn’t just accelerated work. It does indeed require more creative thinking. What the central office puts out for AAP teachers to use are indeed higher level thinking activities and units. [/quote]
Higher level thinking and creativity are not the same thing.  Kids can show higher level thinking by having superior analytical or logical ability.  They might be able to parse through many layers of nuance, anticipate likely outcomes, and propose interesting solutions to problems.  None of this requires the type of creativity that the committee seems to desire, which largely seems to default to artistic and literary creativity and not truly outside-the-box thinking.

My kid is great with higher level thinking, but not particularly creative.  It hasn't hurt him one bit in AAP, except that his creative writing stories aren't particularly good.  Even if he were in gen ed, creative writing would not be a strong point.  [/quote]

That’s not what I meant with higher level thinking at all. I was not referring to analytical or logical ability.[/quote]

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