Thanks for the tips on the meeting. I also studied all the recent advocacy threads hoping it would help me with my meeting. Unfortunately, I did not come away with any new information. So the below is really just a vent.
No matter how I tried to explain that she wasn't being exposed to any new material in math and was asking when she would learn something new, the teacher replied she is learning new ways of doing the problems. True, but is it really necessary to learn so many ways to multiple. The one math goal they devised for her was, child will use numeric operations and concepts to analyze numeric data to solve complex, grade appropriate math problems with 90% accuracy. As my husband asked, isn't that the goal for all the kids? Plus she gets two years to do this. Oh my. This is a child who consistently scores in the 99% on state standardized testing and took SCAT last year and scored in the 98%. I could just cry that they didn't offer any more to her and I'm not even sure what I would suggest.
Her reading level in May 09 was assessed at a 4.1, with a comprehension level in the mid 90's, which is where the teacher stopped the test as she was only in 1st grade. The teacher today said her reading level was 5.1 which she based on her last year reading level report from teacher and state standardized test scores. I'm not even sure how those would determine reading level. Then the teacher also added I use age to determine appropriate reading level. Why even bother to assign a level if you aren't really going to check it? It makes my head spin to think about the rest of the school year and what is still in store. Teacher did say she would meet with us again to have a real conference and this meeting was just the gifted meeting to deal with educational plan. Maybe I can get better thoughts together for that meeting.
Last edited by DorothyS; 10/13/10 05:43 AM.
