My daughter is a fifth grader now in the GT (now called AAP) program. She loves reading and writing. She is a bit slow in math but working hard. Her CogAt and NNAT scores were 141 and 129 when she took the tests at the second grade, which is an accurate reflection of her strengths and weaknesses. She loves nature and science. The GT Specialist at her school happened to be her science teacher. She liked the thoughtful questions my daughter always asked in her class, and rated her 14 out of 16 on the Gifted Behaviors Rating Scale (GBRS). My daughter got into GT smoothly without us knowing the process and working hard on collecting her samples.
As parents who didn’t grow up in the American educational system, we didn’t even know about the GT program when she was about to take the tests. Luckily her second grade teacher and GT Specialist were very helpful in providing information and finding her work samples in her school portfolio folder.
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