But, first of all, what does CP stand for in high school? And, what is the difference between college prep and honors classes, anyway? There are actually some important distinctions that are generally held standard throughout most public high schools and some private schools. The following questions relate specifically to the Gifted English classes: Q. As far as the gifted English classes go, must a student be gifted in English in order to be in them?
The student must meet the criteria for gifted identification. Many of our students are not particularly gifted in English. Many are mathematically, logically, scientifically, creatively, etc. The teachers in the program understand and meet this challenge with a variety of strategies.
Why is the program run largely through the English department if students are not necessarily gifted in English? At the high school level, students have no room in their schedules for a pull-out or elective class, so it was decided that if WGHS wanted students to be able to participate in a gifted class, it should deliver services through a core class. English was deemed most flexible and suitable to deliver gifted content through. So are the gifted English classes the same as honors English classes?
No, they are not. The similarity between Gifted English and Honors English is that they offer challenging content at a relatively fast pace, which is why both gifted and honors classes offer honors credit There are two big differences between Honors English and Gifted English:.
The district also is experimenting with ways to identify capable but underperforming students and to ensure they are prepared both academically and psychologically to tackle challenging high school courses. Harriet Eddy Middle, for example, provides 30 minutes of individual tutoring for every student each day, plus a half-hour of social-emotional skills and stress-management lessons each Friday. Sandi Peterson, a Harriet Eddy counselor, has a personal stake in getting more low-income and minority students into honors courses.
Instead, Peterson became the only one of her six siblings to graduate from college, and she now seeks out low-income and minority students who showed promise in elementary grades but who are performing at the average or poorly in middle school. Elk Grove is also working to temper the potential for implicit bias in referrals for gifted education at all levels. Research has found that teachers are less likely to recommend students for gifted programs when their names have nonstandard spellings or are associated with low-income or specific ethnic groups.
To test your own implicit bias in recommending students for a gifted program, check out our ongoing study online. These biases hold even when teachers consciously believe they are recommending students equitably. Without changing the eligibility criteria for its gifted program, the Broward County, Fla.
The district simply supplemented its identification system, based on teacher or parent referrals, with a universal screening for all 2nd graders. Last spring, Elk Grove administered the same nonverbal cognitive test to all of its 3rd graders. This fall, the total number of gifted students rose by nearly , with higher proportions of low-income, black, and Hispanic students identified as gifted.
Liz Perry, the coordinator of gifted education at Case Elementary, another Elk Grove district school, said teachers balked when they first saw the students identified by the universal gifted screening.
Next year, the district will roll out the rest of the changes to the identification system, with teachers and principals developing new rubrics for identifying exceptional creativity and leadership, both in class and in outside activities, such as community volunteering and church youth groups.
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