This week in your child's Friday Folder, you should have received the Advanced Learning Plan (ALP) for the year. As I mentioned last week, this is a document required by the state of Colorado to help communicate to families what goals your child has related to their gifted identification and what services the school will provide. Last week, I shared with you what to expect for afffective/social-emotional goals. This week let me briefly describe what you should see for academic goals. Depending on what academic area(s) your child is identified in, you will note that there is a goal written related to that. If your child is identified in math, their goal is to do advanced work. Advanced work is defined by looking more closely at the math rubric (also included with the ALP.) Areas for focus include, of course, increasing mathematical knowledge, but also include communication, effort, problem solving, creativity, and doing well on assessments during the year. Each student was also required to pick one of these areas for their focus area for growth too, and you will see which one your child picked by looking at the rubric included with their ALP. If you want to know the types of things we will be doing in class this year, make sure to read the "Instructional Actions/Strategies" section of the ALP which spells out more details. You can look more closely at the rubric here or click on the image here. Each grade level also has a standards focus for the year: 5th grade - Math Practice Standard #3: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others 4th grade - Math Practice Standard #2: Reason abstractly and quantitatively 3rd grade - Math Practice Standard #1: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them If your child is identified in reading, again students are expected to do advanced work. The rubric explains the focus areas of independent reading, comprehension, discussions, assessments/projects, and effort. Click on the image to the left or click here to see the rubric larger. Similar to math, students were asked to reflect on which of these areas needed the most work for them and write their individual goal on the back of their rubric (included with your child's ALP.) The standards that each grade level will be focusing on for math are: 5th Grade - Colorado Academic Standards (Reading, Writing Communication) 4. Research and Reasoning 1. High-quality research requires information that is organized and presented with documentation 4th Grade - Colorado Academic Standards (Reading, Writing Communication) 2. Reading for All Purposes 3. Knowledge of complex orthography (spelling patterns), morphology (word meanings), and word relationships to decode (read) multisyllabic words contributes to better reading skills 3rd Grade - Colorado Academic Standards (Reading, Writing Communication) 2. Reading for All Purposes 1. Strategies are needed to make meaning of various types of literary genres The final academic area that we have students identified in is creativity. This goal area for ALP's requires that a student be graded using the Creative Product rubric when they complete projects both in my class and in their homeroom class. For details on what those expectations are, click on the rubric on the right or click here. Projects can be related to social studies concepts, novel studies, scientific studies, or writing samples. During the year, we try to make sure students have the opportunity to see how it is possible to be creative in all academic subjects - not just the arts.
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