Good evening everyone,
So here I am finally with the results from DS7 testing....I should be shouting out hooray really, but perhaps I'm just too tired after staying up with DS22months who was sick all night or just kind of let down by a PhD. lady who sat in on the meeting as a "gifted consultant" for the district. (who by the way hasn't even met my son, but gave me the standard lines I've heard to many times).
Now to the meat of the post I hope.
My DS7 is a first grader (had the Dec. birthday so he had to do the extra year of preschool) and is currently doing a 90 min. Lang. arts block in the am. with a 2nd grade class. The district doesn't start their gifted screening until the end of 2nd grade and since I felt DS couldn't wait that long and the subject acceleration really wasn't the best option for next year, I finally requested that he be tested. Besides those reasons I was hoping for him to be placed in the 3rd/4th grade gifted self contained class. They agreed to the early testing/screening for their gifted programs and after waiting almost two weeks we got the results and recommendations for next years placement today.
They gave DS7 the WISC-IV on day and the Woodcock-McGrew-Werder Mini Battery of Achievement (I never heard of this one...I was hoping it was one on the DYS list, but alas it is not). He did really well and would meet the requirement for the DYS, but if I want to go that route I'd need to have him do a talent search test I guess since I'm thinking the district wouldn't do another achievement test.
So here are a few questions on the tests...has anyone noticed the last part of the WISC-IV is processing speed...why would they put that on the end when your brain would be a bit tired? Symbol search is one of the areas that he didn't do well on...what is that exactly? The school psych. said that he was somewhat fatigued at the end of the test which may have impacted his score.
Does anyone have experience with the Woodcock-McGrew-Werder Mini Battery? He scored superior in all the areas, but from what I read it may be a quick and dirty test?
So now we are down to recommendations...The district has a third/fourth grade Alpha self contained classroom which I thought they would offer. They didn't recommend this option since it is more like 4th or 5th grade which would be too much of a skip for him they said. You would think that it would be a normal 3rd/4th grade class for gifted students right?
To try and make this post shorter,
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The school district is offering a skip to reg. 3rd grade with a teacher who has taught 2nd so she can detect "holes" in his learning. They would then also offer the gifted pullout which is once a week.
So I better wrap up now....(I started this post earlier and have lost steam).
Please feel free to share any information or experiences.
Thanks,
Moni
