Anonymous
01/14/2016 18:44
Subject: Re:What percentage of HGC students go on to the magnet middle programs? Is this listed somewhere?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
+1 and my kids both went to the (one) HGC that is split between two schools.
At one of those schools, one of the teachers in particular is a math guru. No matter what the curriculum might say, she is teaching the kids very advanced math.
Yep, I posted up stream and was speaking of the same person.
One of my children had her too. I think the difference from before is that they were allowed to accelerate beyond where they can accelerate now so that teacher had more sections of math bc the students were accelerated at different rates. But both Mrs. Salazar and Mrs. Houston told parents at the open house that the HGC was a humanities program. My child who is still at an HGC has a teacher who has been there more than a decade. She has mentioned that there are only certain subjects that are HGC and that has always been the case. If you look at the report card it is now marked (starting this year) with CPHG for subjects that are HGC. Some of the teachers are excellent and go beyond the curriculum though. For example, in 5th grade my child did an electricity city project in science. This was not a party of the HGC science curriculum bc there is no HGC science curriculum. But this teacher ôknew that the students could handle/needed science enrichment so provided it. I think that there are some HGC teachers who really go beyond the curriculum (which is great).
Yes, my child did that too. That teacher definitely goes beyond the curriculum to levels the kids need.
I asked that teacher once about the curriculum and teacher looked at me like I had two heads and said "I just make sure these kids get what they need." My child loved that class.
Anonymous
01/14/2016 16:05
Subject: Re:What percentage of HGC students go on to the magnet middle programs? Is this listed somewhere?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
+1 and my kids both went to the (one) HGC that is split between two schools.
At one of those schools, one of the teachers in particular is a math guru. No matter what the curriculum might say, she is teaching the kids very advanced math.
Yep, I posted up stream and was speaking of the same person.
One of my children had her too. I think the difference from before is that they were allowed to accelerate beyond where they can accelerate now so that teacher had more sections of math bc the students were accelerated at different rates. But both Mrs. Salazar and Mrs. Houston told parents at the open house that the HGC was a humanities program. My child who is still at an HGC has a teacher who has been there more than a decade. She has mentioned that there are only certain subjects that are HGC and that has always been the case. If you look at the report card it is now marked (starting this year) with CPHG for subjects that are HGC. Some of the teachers are excellent and go beyond the curriculum though. For example, in 5th grade my child did an electricity city project in science. This was not a party of the HGC science curriculum bc there is no HGC science curriculum. But this teacher knew that the students could handle/needed science enrichment so provided it. I think that there are some HGC teachers who really go beyond the curriculum (which is great).
Yes, my child did that too. That teacher definitely goes beyond the curriculum to levels the kids need.
Anonymous
01/14/2016 16:03
Subject: Re:What percentage of HGC students go on to the magnet middle programs? Is this listed somewhere?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Eastern still will get most HGC kids, since now HGCs focus primarily on humanities.
The HGC math curriculum was the same as the general MCPS math curriculum before Curriculum 2.0 as well. If the HGCs now focus primarily on humanities (which I don't agree with -- science is not a humanities subject, then they also focused primarily on humanities before Curriculum 2.0.
You are wrong. Prior to two years ago, the HGC had more advanced math, science and all subjects.
No. That is simply not true. Every HGC teacher and principal will tell you that HGC was always a humanities program.
Perhaps it was supposed to be. My daughter was in an HGC during the transition to 2.0. In 4th grade she was taking math 5/6 (the lower math class, some were taking 6/7). Math class included math Olympiad problems each week. In 5th grade we were informed that all extra math work (including the math Olympiad problems) would be stopped due to the extra humanities work needed for 2.0. So, old HGC (at least at my kids center) definitely included advanced math.
Anonymous
01/14/2016 15:59
Subject: What percentage of HGC students go on to the magnet middle programs? Is this listed somewhere?
There is no HGC curriculum for subjects other than humanities. This means that while students in the past had the opportunity for 7th grade or beyond math, the curriculum itself wasn't different. This would be analogous to skipping. The HGC curriculum isn't skipping. It's an enhanced/different curriculum. Of course, regardless of curriculum the students benefit from the peer group.
Anonymous
01/14/2016 15:38
Subject: Re:What percentage of HGC students go on to the magnet middle programs? Is this listed somewhere?
Pre 2.0 Barnsley had an IM class.
Anonymous
01/14/2016 15:05
Subject: Re:What percentage of HGC students go on to the magnet middle programs? Is this listed somewhere?
Anonymous wrote:
+1 and my kids both went to the (one) HGC that is split between two schools.
At one of those schools, one of the teachers in particular is a math guru. No matter what the curriculum might say, she is teaching the kids very advanced math.
Yep, I posted up stream and was speaking of the same person.
One of my children had her too. I think the difference from before is that they were allowed to accelerate beyond where they can accelerate now so that teacher had more sections of math bc the students were accelerated at different rates. But both Mrs. Salazar and Mrs. Houston told parents at the open house that the HGC was a humanities program. My child who is still at an HGC has a teacher who has been there more than a decade. She has mentioned that there are only certain subjects that are HGC and that has always been the case. If you look at the report card it is now marked (starting this year) with CPHG for subjects that are HGC. Some of the teachers are excellent and go beyond the curriculum though. For example, in 5th grade my child did an electricity city project in science. This was not a party of the HGC science curriculum bc there is no HGC science curriculum. But this teacher knew that the students could handle/needed science enrichment so provided it. I think that there are some HGC teachers who really go beyond the curriculum (which is great).