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Overview of Services 2018-2019
Laura HotalingAdvanced Academic Resource Teacher
Advanced Academic Programs
Framing Our Time Together
I. The What: Understanding the Continuum
II. The Why: Meeting Students’ Needs
III. The How: Identification and Timelines
Advanced Academic Services in
FCPS
“Most of all, have the confidence in every learner’s ability to think and your capacity to nurture that thinking. The results will amaze and energize you.”
- Ron Ritchhart
Think about the best learning experiences you have had in your own life.
What made your learning experiences powerful?
Talk about it!
The What...
Framing Our Time Together
I. The What: Understanding the Continuum
II. The Why: Meeting Students’ Needs
III. The How: Identification and Timelines
Advanced Academic Services in
FCPS
Level I Services:
Critical and Creative Thinking
Strategies
All children learn to think, reason, and problem-solve through nine strategies that challenge students to use and apply knowledge in new and different ways.
Lessons that develop critical and creative thinking skills are used by teachers with all students in K-6 classrooms.
Level I Services:
Critical and Creative Thinking
Strategies
Examples of Instructional Strategies to Support
AAP Services (Levels I-IV)
Debono’s Thinking Hats
RAFT and GRASPS
Think-Tac-Toe
Socratic Seminar
Concept-Based Instruction
Cubing
Synectics
SCAMPER
Questioning
Project Based Learning
Creative Problem Solving
Visible Thinking Routines
Academic Conversations
Multiple Entry Points for AAP Curriculum
Differentiated Curriculum Framework
● Grades K-6● Teachers select resources from
this menu to use with students● All Four Core Content Areas
High-Impact AAP Lessons
● Grades 3-6● Embedded in General Education
Planning and Pacing Guides.● All Four Core Content Areas
Level II Services:
Differentiated InstructionGrades K-6
Differentiated instruction is provided through more challenging content, assignments, resources, and flexible groupings in one or more areas of academic strength.
Advanced Academic Resource Teachers plan, collaborate, and share ideas and resources with classroom teachers and other specialists.
Level III Services:
Part-Time Services
Grades 3-6
Students work with the Advanced Academic Resource Teacher to receive enrichment and extensions to curriculum and instruction. The AART plans and collaborates with the classroom teachers and other teachers who work with the students e.g., ESOL and special education.
Direct services may take the form of the AART co-teaching with the classroom teacher with flexible instructional groups within the classroom or pull-out groups.
Level IV Services:
Full-Time Services
Grades 3-6
The full-time advanced academic program is differentiated in depth, breadth, and pace of instruction. It provides an appropriate level of challenge for highly gifted learners with a strong emphasis on critical and creative thinking and problem-solving.
The mathematics curriculum is accelerated by one grade level and readings and resources that are used in other subject areas are also presented at advanced levels. Students have opportunities for ongoing reflection and self-assessment.
Framing Our Time Together
I. The What: Understanding the Continuum
II. The Why: Meeting Students’ Needs
III. The How: Identification and Timelines
Advanced Academic Services in
FCPS
Virginia Department of Education Definition of Gifted
"Gifted students" means those students in public elementary, middle, and secondary schools beginning with kindergarten through twelfth grade who demonstrate high levels of accomplishment or who show the potential for higher levels of accomplishment when compared to others of the same age, experience, or environment.”
Philosophy of FCPS Advanced Academic Programs
Children who have been identified for advanced academic services have the potential to achieve high levels of accomplishment, and this potential needs to be recognized and addressed.
In order to meet their needs and develop their abilities, these high ability learners require a differentiated curriculum that provides advanced learning opportunities.
Possible Areas of Unique Social-Emotional Needs in Advanced Learners● Asynchronous development ● Heightened areas of sensitivity and excitability (ex.
Intellectual, imaginational, emotional)● Perfectionism● Lofty goals and high standards for themselves
and others● Deep concerns about societal problems
Young Scholars ModelAll Levels, K-12Young Scholars may simultaneously be identified for level II, III, or IV services.
Early IdentificationPurpose: Identify students from populations of students who have historically been underrepresented in advanced academics, and provide to them the supports and interventions that will help them access and be successful in rigorous coursework as they progress through the grades.
Committed Professionals
Find, Identify
Essential Elements
Nurture, Guide,
Support Young
Scholars
Twice Exceptional Learners (2e)
Who are they?A student who demonstrates high performance ability or academic potential and who has a cognitive, physical, behavioral, or emotional disability that requires accommodations in order for their potential to be realized.
FCPS Learning Model
A commitment to equity in opportunity, access, and achievement.
Portrait of a Graduate Attributes
“Learning happens within us, not to us.”
- Carol Ann Tomlinson
Framing Our Time Together
I. The What: Understanding the Continuum
II. The Why: Meeting Students’ Needs
III. The How: Identification and Timelines
Advanced Academic Services in
FCPS
Information Considered in
Placement Decisions:
Part-Timeand
Full-Time Services
Gifted Behavior Rating Scale (GBRS)Progress ReportsAdditional Information
- Record of previous Advanced Academic services - Work samples, certificates, and/or awards (8 ½ x 11)- Parent Questionnaire (Level IV only)
Ability test scores - Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (NNAT)
- FCPS Cognitive Ability Test (CogAT) Custom FormAchievement Test Scores
- Standards of Learning (SOL) scores
Local School AAP Screening for School Based Services (Levels II-III)
• All students are evaluated for Advanced Academic Programs school-based services using multiple pieces of data
• Local school Advanced Academic Programs screening committee determines eligibility for school-based services
• Parents/guardians may initiate a referral• Parents/guardians are notified in writing of eligibility and
have the right to appeal a decision
Grades 2–7: Level IV Candidates
● Referral forms may be submitted on the first day of school. No exceptions to the referral deadline are accepted.
● Screening file is prepared by the local school Advanced Academic Programs screening committee and submitted to central selection committee.
● Eligibility decisions are made by the central selection committee, and reviewed by an oversight committee.
● Parent/guardian(s) are notified by mail regarding eligibility.
Parents may submit a Full-Time (Level IV) Advanced Academic Program referral for the full-time program
available in grades 3-8.
Grade 2 Screening Pool Candidates
● An internal screening pool is established using the Naglieri Nonverbal Abilities Test (NNAT) from 1st grade and the FCPS Cognitive Ability Test (CogAT) Custom Form, Grade 2.
● Parents of students in the second grade screening pool receive a letter notifying them that their child will be screened for the full-time advanced academic program. Parents may decline screening.
● The screening pool is often announced very close to the referral deadline as test results are not available to determine test scores for the pool for the current year.
Parents who want their student screened for level IV services are encouraged to submit a referral to initiate Level IV screening without waiting
for pool information to be mailed.
AAP referrals and optional screening materials
(for students attending FCPS) due to local schools
Thursday, January 10, 2019
Testing Timeline
October 1-12, 2018● FCPS CogAT-Custom Form Grade 2 Test administered to all Grade 2 students● CogAT administered to specific students in Grades 3-7
November 12-16, 2018● Naglieri Nonverbal Test administered to to all students in Grade 1 and
specific students in Grades 2-7February 11-15, 2019
● Naglieri Nonverbal Test administered to students in Grades 2-7 who need an abilities test score for Level IV screening
Referral Timeline: Fall 2018
October 11, 2018 Level IV Referral Form for new FCPS students due to AART at attending elementary school
November 2018 Central Selection Committee meets
December 2018 Eligibility decisions mailed
December 17, 2018 Appeals due to office
January 28, 2019 Eligible students in Grades 3-8 may attend full-time sites beginning second semester
For FCPS students newly enrolled in FCPS and attending after January 2018, and students not enrolled in FCPS.
Referral Timeline: Spring 2019
January 10, 2019 Level IV Referral Form and optional screening materials due to AART at attending elementary school
March 2019 Central Selection Committee meets
April 4-5, 2019 Eligibility decisions mailed
April 16-26, 2019 Orientations held at Level IV sites
May 10, 2019 Appeals due to office
Fall 2019 Eligible students in Grades 3-8 may attend full-time sites beginning first semester
For currently enrolled FCPS students in Grades 2-7.
AAP Beyond Elementary...Middle School
Level IV Services - Through Grade 8Open Enrollment for Honors Courses in areas of strength and interest
AAP Beyond Elementary School...High School
Dual Enrollment CoursesOpen Enrollment Honors Courses Advanced Placement (AP)International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) - Grades 11-12Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST)
Questions?
Laura [email protected]:45-9:30 am Monday - Friday
www.fcps.edu