Anonymous wrote:Our AART was non reponsive at first....not sure if it is related, but she is enjoying the Porshe...and our kid got a 16 on the GBRS
Anonymous wrote:FWIW, I never said that I expect him to excel in AAP with these poor homework skills. I am at my wit's end with this kid. I can only hope that the experiential method of teaching that they tout in AAP will do something to engage him more in his schoolwork. General ed is not working.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My first experience with our school's AART was at the Info Night for AAP. She explained that she gives all 2nd grade teachers a folder for each student at the beginning of the year and asks them to put any really good work samples in it as the year goes along. When AAP screening time comes around, she uses that file to select work samples for the screening file. The school is required to submit 2, but if the parents don't add any she uses the file to submit the 4 optional work samples. That was very helpful because we hadn't saved any work samples at home. I was able to give the classroom teacher a heads up that we wouldn't be submitting work samples and she was prepared to select 6.
I was surprised when I saw my DD's screening file to see that she's receiving Level II services in Language Arts and Math. I wasn't aware of it and she doesn't seem to be. It must be happening in class because she's never mentioned being pulled out. I'm pretty sure the GBRS commentary was written by the classroom teacher. The examples used were things DD told me she had worked on with her teacher.
The AART is only at our school 2.5 days a week and there are dozens of kids getting Level II & III services.
I'm very surprised at this. I thought I had read somewhere in the packet that only a maximum of 2 work samples could be submitted by the school. Period.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My first experience with our school's AART was at the Info Night for AAP. She explained that she gives all 2nd grade teachers a folder for each student at the beginning of the year and asks them to put any really good work samples in it as the year goes along. When AAP screening time comes around, she uses that file to select work samples for the screening file. The school is required to submit 2, but if the parents don't add any she uses the file to submit the 4 optional work samples. That was very helpful because we hadn't saved any work samples at home. I was able to give the classroom teacher a heads up that we wouldn't be submitting work samples and she was prepared to select 6.
I was surprised when I saw my DD's screening file to see that she's receiving Level II services in Language Arts and Math. I wasn't aware of it and she doesn't seem to be. It must be happening in class because she's never mentioned being pulled out. I'm pretty sure the GBRS commentary was written by the classroom teacher. The examples used were things DD told me she had worked on with her teacher.
The AART is only at our school 2.5 days a week and there are dozens of kids getting Level II & III services.
I'm very surprised at this. I thought I had read somewhere in the packet that only a maximum of 2 work samples could be submitted by the school. Period.
Anonymous wrote:My first experience with our school's AART was at the Info Night for AAP. She explained that she gives all 2nd grade teachers a folder for each student at the beginning of the year and asks them to put any really good work samples in it as the year goes along. When AAP screening time comes around, she uses that file to select work samples for the screening file. The school is required to submit 2, but if the parents don't add any she uses the file to submit the 4 optional work samples. That was very helpful because we hadn't saved any work samples at home. I was able to give the classroom teacher a heads up that we wouldn't be submitting work samples and she was prepared to select 6.
I was surprised when I saw my DD's screening file to see that she's receiving Level II services in Language Arts and Math. I wasn't aware of it and she doesn't seem to be. It must be happening in class because she's never mentioned being pulled out. I'm pretty sure the GBRS commentary was written by the classroom teacher. The examples used were things DD told me she had worked on with her teacher.
The AART is only at our school 2.5 days a week and there are dozens of kids getting Level II & III services.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Most AARTs work part time, and meet once a month with each classroom for level 1 enrichment. The 2nd grade teachers identifies some kids for advanced work and the aart pulls them out once a week, usually for math (level 2)
Unless your kid is one identified for level 2 work, the aart will only have a cursory idea who they are, and the gbrs will likely be all 8, with some random writing sample.
Teachers are human, and their time is finite. Unless the 2nd grade teacher has identified a kid for level 2 services, or they are looking at some great scores, chances are they will spend a limited amount of time on each kid.
How do kids get identified for level 2 work? Usually they are the kids who have already mastered 2nd grade math in the beginning of the year.
Problem is, there are no individualized services for K and 1 st grade, so advancing ahead in math depends on after school programs like Kumon -- even when you start out with a kindergartner well ahead of his peers.
If your kid is the one who is tired after 7 hours of school and balks at extra math (and homework) after school, you will simply fall through the gbrs cracks, even with a smart kid.
My kid is lazy, won't do any homework, and has never (to my knowledge) been pulled out for extra time with the AART. GBRS 12, accepted into AAP.