TCS Gifted Education Celebrates A Rating Submitted by Paula Zirm, Gifted Coordinator It is with great enthusiasm that the TCS Office of Gifted Education celebrates our recent report card “A” rating in gifted value-added for the 2013-2014 school year. Perhaps you saw the local report card chart in Sunday’s Advertiser-Tribune. If so, you may have noticed how few “A” ratings there were. The Ohio Department of Education, ODE, designed the letter grades to indicate a “C” ranking as average, representing the amount of growth we would expect in students from one year of instruction as measured between two fixed points on standardized tests. “B” grades are assigned when students grew in their learning more than one year but less than two. So an “A” rating is quite remarkable, suggesting that those students gained more than two years in just a twelve month period. Some educators will note that showing growth in learning in gifted students is doubly challenging because these students come into our classrooms already having much of the grade level content mastered. The value-added success of gifted students at TCS can be attributed to our guiding principals of good instruction. We use pre-testing to determine where we have opportunities for new learning and to determine where we can compact the curriculum. We add depth and complexity to grade-level content and encourage critical thinking and analysis. TCS has gifted students in many different classrooms. The success we celebrate today was truly a group effort, reaching beyond just gifted cluster classrooms, honors classes, or AP. With over 700 identified gifted students enrolled, TCS teachers recognize their part in gifted instruction, contributing to our success.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:49:45 +0000
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