(Advanced Academic Program)

Ms. Linda Dane

Fairfax County Public Schools offers a continuum of advanced academic services that provides all students with opportunities to engage in complex subject matter and helps prepare them for more challenging and rigorous classes as they advance in grade level.

London TowneElementary School offers 3 levels of advanced academic service. The GT teacher's role is to work with classroom teachers preparing students to move to a higher level when they are ready.

Level I Services

Grades K-2 Response Lessons

The GT teacher models these lessons and provides teachers with a collection of Response Lessons that may be used throughout the school year. These lessons are designed to develop critical and creative thinking skills in all students. The lessons also serve as a useful tool for identifying students with advanced academic potential.

A kindergarten lesson called “Changes”

Grades 3-6 Model Thinking Lessons

These lessons are connected to the Program of Studies (POS) and are designed to teach all students higher order thinking skills. The GT teacher models these lessons and provides the classroom teachers with a collection of lessons that enrich and extend the POS for each core subject area at each grade level.

A 5 th grade lesson called “ Avoiding Vocabulary Disaster “

Level II Services

Grades K-6 Differentiated Services

Differentiated Services are offered to students who have specific academic strengths. The GT teacher collaborates with classroom teachers to support differentiated instruction and to provide additional challenges within the general education program.

Grades K-6 Young Scholars (YS) Model

The Young Scholars model is designed to find and nurture gifted potential in students from historically underrepresented populations beginning in kindergarten. The GT teacher works with classroom teachers to strengthen basic skills and to develop gifted potential in young learners.  

Level III Services

 Grades 3-6 School-Based Services

Each year a local screening committee screens all students in grades 2-6 for possible participation in advanced academic school-based services. The GT teacher provides direct services for these students and they are challenged through lessons, models, and strategies designed to extend and enrich the POS in the four core subject areas.

6 th grade students present “The Great Debate”

 

Testing

All second grade students and students in grades 3-6 who are missing ability test scores take the Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) and/or the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (NNAT) in the fall. These test results help us determine the appropriate level of service for each student.

For more information:

Advanced Academic (GT) website at http://www.fcps.edu/DIS/gt

London Towne Advanced Academic Blackboard site - available through FCPS 24/7 Learning

 

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