Gifted and Talented Terminology

 

 

1.                ACE – Academic Creative Education – child centered program for students in grades kindergarten through twelfth grade.

 

2.                 LEAP – Leading Exceptional Academic Producers

   housed at McCoy and Perry Middle School

 

3.                 CDS – Classroom Delivery Services ~ helps meet the needs of elementary gifted students and allows them to be served on an ongoing basis throughout the day.  This model enables g/t students to work together as a group, work with others, and work independently.

 

4.                IDS – Interdisciplinary seminar is a course designed to meet the needs of ACE and LEAP middle school students.  The curriculum is interdisciplinary and enhances the four core subjects by adding depth, complexity, and pacing.  The program focuses on leadership development, promotes thinking skills, problem based learning and focus questions, student initiated research and other activities designed to enrich the curriculum.  Each grade level has a theme addressed all year:

6th – Cultures

7th – Power          

8th – Interdependence

 

5.                 Cluster Groups – ACE students clustered in specific classrooms with ‘teachers of record’ for purposes of working together to meet their academic and social/emotional needs.

 

6.                Teacher of Record – teacher responsible for serving gifted students in CDS or IDS.   Must have 30 hours of gifted training and 6 hour update each year (April – May)

 

 

7.                 Liaison – school representative responsible for disseminating information to staff and communication with the Advanced Academic Office.

 

8.                 Depth and Complexity – further exploration of content within a discipline; analyzing from the concrete to the abstract; extending content between and across the disciplines through study of themes, problems, and issues.

 

9.                Augmentation/Differentiation – modifying the general education curriculum by adding depth, complexity and pacing.

 

10.            AP - Advanced Placement – national nonprofit educational association of colleges, universities, and high schools.  The program monitors introductory-level college curricula, outlines courses that satisfy the learning objectives of those curricula, and offers these course outlines to high schools, along with support materials and professional development.

 

11.            Pre-AP – prepares students, especially those traditionally underrepresented, for the challenges offered by the Advanced Placement Program.