Well I'm hanging up my advocacy hat for a while. I really need a rest and a chance to focus on other things. The Diagnostic Assessment of Reading had DD8, 4th grade, with oral reading on 8th grade level, word recognition on 7th, silent reading comprehension and word meaning on 6th and spelling on a 5th. Teacher offered to give her 1 novel a quarter, books are on 5th grade level, but somehow (?) the extra enhancement activities the teacher provides increase the level to 6th grade. Spelling, vocabulary will come out of the 4th grade instructional book.
She was also administered the Key Math 3 Diagnostic Assessment and had overall grade equivalent of 8.1 and 99.8% percentile, with basic concepts, operations and applications all being over 99%. Teacher very reluctantly offered to give her a pre-test of the chapter material with no workable plans in place as to how she would proceed if DD proved successful. They encouraged teacher to give tests to all kids in the class and let the ones who pass, move on to pre-test on the next chaper, etc. Sounds good in theory, but you could potentially end up with several children being on a different level in math. The teacher felt this wouldn't be an issue as to use her words, there were no children in class, DD included who were ready to move on in math.
DD also scored top scores on her state standardized testing last year and state benchmark testing this year. Teacher still not impressed reminded us that DD was not the top of her class. Funny thing is she sure thought very highly of her before todays meeting.
I think we just need to hang in there and finish this year up.
Last edited by DorothyS; 11/19/10 05:25 PM.