Mon, Thanks for your reply. It really got me thinking about a lot of things as I been preparing for my meeting today. Teacher received her gifted certification just recently, this is her 3rd year teaching gifted, but she has been teaching for a long time. I honestly don't think anyone in our school is that great with the requirements of the gifted program. There is not a lot of gifted children and I think parents just follow the program that is given rather than look for individual accomodations.
My DS13 went through the elementary school here too and looking back over his EP's they really were written the same way and nothing was done to accomodate his individual learning pace. At the time, I really didn't know a lot about gifted either and didn't push for proper accomodations. This caused him to struggle later on with learning how to learn, having the motivation and drive when things got challenging etc. He is now on a good path, but I think things would have been better if he was properly accomodated during elementary school, thus the reason I push for it now for my DD.
I wouldn't fault the teacher for not knowing about the program or thinking she needs to accomodate individual learning as there are no teachers in our school that do this as they haven't been asked to previously, but my concern is that now that things are being brought to light, will she be able to accomodate my DD adequately in her classroom?
The principal is someone who I believe has children's best interest at heart and she did allow the first ever grade acceleration at her school for my DD. She also monitors and comments regularly on how well it has worked for DD.
The psychologist came back on Thursday for another 1 hour math testing session. My DD shared the tester indicated at some point her "fluency" of math wasn't very fast, while she could do the problems, she didn't work fluently. That sure didn't sound like an appropriate thing for psych to share, anymore than the other day when she shared with her the reason for the test was her mother didn't think she was being challenged in math. After math test was finished, a reading specialist came to test her reading/comprehension/spelling etc. DD said this was an hour test.
I certainly can't say they didn't test her. I'm really looking forward to the meeting this afternoon to go over results and plan. I really wish I had results in hand before meeting though as feel so unprepared for any issues that may come up and I'm sure they will have already developed their own idea of plan seeing they have the test results. Fingers crossed for a good meeting.
