Hello Posters,

Per some requests on this board, We have decided to Create a "Sticky" post that contains a link to a Hoagies web page of commonly-used gifted acronyms (below). This page can be a good starting point for new-comers to the board.

http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/acronyms.htm

Great Idea!
Let's add some of our own favorite acronyms and phrases too -

Mine's LOG - level of giftedness - the difference between most gifted kids and the far flung few who range beyond any mythical cut off.

"Chicken Dance" is slang for subject acceleration when the school doesn't line up all Math at once, so that a kid must leave one room to go to another in a kind of disruptive and non-natural way.

"For the Grandchildren" is a battle cry that comforts us when we make incredible efforts at advocacy that create change too late for our own individual children.

Enjoy,
Grinity

DOK, Drooling On Keyboard, the polite way to envy someone else's tasty accommodations, LOL! (Credit I believe goes to Grinity!)

"Balanced Push" or "Supported Push" - a phrase that acknowldeges that as wonderful as child led learning is, we grown ups owe it to them to have an independent perspective and actually 'push' at times to help them get over various confusions that get installed by spending lots of time in learning environments aimed way below their readiness level.

ODP and SDP are short for Outer-Directed Perfectionism and Self-Direct Perfectionism. Both rampant in the Gifted World, and often, but not always, caused by too much time in school settings below the child's readiness level.

Related, is "The Goldilocks Problem" when the readiness level shrinks to a skinny little level or seems to dissapear completely. Everything appears either 'too hard' or 'too easy' to afflicted child. Again gentle balanced pushes at the closest estimate of the child's readiness level and great patience will usually decrease this 'Goldilocks Problem.'

And yes, I did hatch DOK, and it was a lovely moment! Thanks for the acknowledgement!
Grinity

ND stands for 'Normally Developing' as a way to discribe what most adults expect kids of your age to be like.

'Agemates' is a term for children who share the year of birth with your child, and perhaps or perhaps not some other interests.

'Peers' is reserved for children who actually are your child's peer in at least one area.

For OHG: GS# = Grandson, aged #

Here are some general internet conventions:

DS4 = Dear Son aged 4
DD11 = dear daughter - aged 11
DH = dear husband, or darn husband, as case may be. ((giggle))
DS = dear spouse
DW = dear wife
DX = dear x-husband, x-wife or x-spouse
DP might refer to a school priniciple,

HSing - homeschooling
PS could be private school (which actually prefer to be called Independent Schools these days) or Public School so it's really confusing to use these. Of course most of us are quite confused about if there is actually a differenc between them IRL (in real life) as well. Sometimes there is and sometimes there isn't. Only sitting in the classroom and observing the goings on will tell for sure.

IEP - Individualised educational plan
GIEP - IEP for gifted kids - some states have them and some states don't.

And if you are a real newbie (new to the internet person), putting something in double quotes give you a chance to show an emotion, like a smiley.

((smiles))
Grinity

AWK = "Away with out keyboard," another Grinity-ism that I really like.

GS8 just got a WEP, Written Education Plan. That's what they do for the gifted kids in our school. A little late, but better than never.

DYS = Davidson Young Scholars Program

(Also sometimes abbreviated YSP, and one who is in the program is a YS.)

POGS = Parents of Gifted Support Group

Here's an old favorite -
MOTS - more of the same

refers to what many schools give their advanced students instead of compacting the curriculum so that the kid can move on to new challenges.

Example - Because Robert completed the page of single digit addition quickly, his teacher gave him 5 more sheets of double digit addition to complete. She didn't realize that at home he is doing division. When Robert didn't show any interest in completed the 5 pages of double digit addition, the teacher concluded that he doesn't have any unusual drive to learn and resisted Robert's parents attempts to get subject acceleration to Robert's Readiness Level.

Frowns,
Grinity

Haha How about GT

GT english
GT math

GT=Gifted & Talented

Or Honors

then there's IB

IB studies
IB Mathe
IB English

International Baccalaureate

A side note: when I use GT, I usually mean just plain "gifted," since apparently there are some places that distinguish between "gifted" and "talented." I don't really understand that kind of system, but I try to be clear about my meaning after some confusion here in the past...

Okay, so what's "IIRC"?

If I recall Correctly (unless she really was talking about the Interactive Illinois Report Card, !)

I am a
AAHFMTU

Acronyms are hard for me to understand

I propose a new term: 'Lumpers!'

These are folks who don't see LOG, and expect your HG kid to fit their MG gifted program (or their competitive private school) and if your kid doesn't it's your kid's fault, because the other bright kids are enjoying it just fine.

Lumpers see the top bunch as all having the same academic needs, it could be the top 25%, 10%, 5% or 3%.

Classic Lumper statements are -
"I raised you kids just fine without any special summer camp. If you just stopped paying attention to 'it,' than your kid could be normal."

and

"We have handfuls of bright kids just like your child."

and

"Here at Elite Private School, we challenge all children to their utmost, don't you worry, dear!"

If you can think of a more charitible sounding name, please suggest it here, but I think we need a word to represent a 'non-LOG' perspective.

Love and More Love,
Grinity 'who is a lumper in many areas, but loves LOG!'

Ohhhhh!

I just hear MON use this this phrase, and I love it!



Newview! Awsome!

Goes right next to 'Classroom Edutainment' where the child is having too much Newview, but at least it's advanced enough to be entertaining.

Smiles,
Grinty

Here's a new acronym: T12GA

It stand for Top 12 Gifted Assesors in the USA

And here's a link to find them:

1) Go to Google Maps
2) Search for: top gifted psychologists
3) scrool down to 'user created content'
4) check the box next to 'user created content' and search
A closer inspection will reveal that there arent 12 names here yet - so lets start a thread for nominations, corrections, and feedback, ok?

That link didn't work for me, Grinity.

T12GA

Here's a try for a link:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&a...f403bed&z=4

It works now, thanks. Yay!

It looks so great, Grinity! Nice work!

WMI and PSI:

short answer:
long answer:

TPS:The 'Transitive Property of Stupid.'

This is a logic error to which very young, unaccomidated, gifties are prone. It is occasionally seen in parents and teachers as well.

Here's what happend to us:
In 2nd grade, DS knew that he could think 'better' than the other kids because of all the teacher-comments, and even in 2nd grade, he could tell that the comments the other kids made were 'rudamentary' by his self-standards. However, because he was slow at things like 'looking words up in a dictionary' and Math facts, he felt that there was something wrong with him.

I think he saw it as the 'Transitive Property of Stupid.'

In DS's mind:
'If I think that kid over there is Stupid, and that kid can do an academic task much faster and more easily than I can, I must be really Very Stupid.

The other famous example comes from outraged teachers who 'can't believe that their classroom is below DS's readiness level' because he doesn't have the very best grades, or check his work and occasionally makes stupid mistakes.

The final example is the adult family member who doesn't think that they were/are gifted because their best friend in High School was smarter than they were. LOL! As if there could only be one gifted person in any given situation!

I guess we live in a society where talking about talents and aptitudes is so taboo, that we don't have a very nuanced vision of the various ways of being intelligent.

Love and More Love,
Grinity

Whew! Thank goodness! I am new to this forum and in reading the posts I kept trying to figure out the lingo. I am fairly familiar with most psychological/educational terms and still didn't know what many things were...like SDP. Thought I had dropped a few IQ points myself! Nice to know it was ignorance and not stupidity. :-)