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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS no longer supports or invests in gifted education.  The provide "resources" teachers can use to differentiate, but teachers are too overwhelmed and tired to differentiate -- and the schools get no more funding for accelerated students.  They get funding based on how many meet the benchmark.  They are concerned about the lower half, not the upper half.  We are done with APS -- long time public school supporters -- but this has become ridiculous.  [/quote]

In your opinion, what would be the ideal school environment for gifted learners in APS? Would you be happier if APS reverted back to pull out groups one time a week for 30 minutes, like they did over 10 years ago? Just curious.[/quote]The policy shouldn't be gifted activities for all.  The point of identifying gifted learners is differentiation.  It's fine if it's in the classroom, but the advanced/gifted learners should be getting differentiated instruction.  They should be given more challenging work.

For instance, in my daughter's 5th grade class they do a pretest before each math unit.  Some kids get every question on the pretest correct, but then they're still expected to just sit through the same math unit as the rest of the class, completing the same assignments.  If they finish assignments early, they are offered a choice board, Lexis or free reading time.  That's it.  Those students shouldn't be sitting through a math unit where they are learning nothing.  There should be differentiated instruction.  They should get harder problems and be taught new concepts.[/quote]

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