Meyer Elementary School

Meyer Elementary GT

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Meyer Elementary GT Facilitator

Mission of Advanced Academics

To ensure all students earn post-secondary credit or demonstrate college readiness.

Advanced Academics will develop and implement courses, assessments, programs, services, and support systems that reflect our commitment to ensuring all students demonstrate college readiness or earn post-secondary credit by high school graduation.

What is GT?

GT students perform at, or show the potential to perform at, a remarkably high level of accomplishment when compared to others of the same age, experience or environment, and exhibit high performance capability in an intellectual area or excel in a specific academic field.

What Does Elementary GT Look Like?

Identified students will attend grade level pullout classes with campus GT Facilitators for 90 minutes each week with a focus on thematic curriculum units:

THEME:
- change
UNITS:
- Programming & Coding, CSI, Mission to Mars, Bio-Chem, Traveltopia, Ologies (Speleology, Ornithology, Cryptology, Radiology, Archaeology, Meteorology, etc.)

GT Parent Advisory

Information for family & community on Gifted & Talented identification and assessment
is shared annually. Initial informational & advisory with an elementary focus on program
updates for the 2024-2025 school year. All parents welcome to attend. Please register by
clicking the link above or scanning the QR code. Registration closes November 5, 2024.

Identification Information

SPRING Screening

Referral Deadline:
- Dec. 19, 2024
KINDERGARTEN

All students are evaluated for the program using the CogAT Screener followed by the full CogAT if needed. Kinder parents will be notified of their child's results by the end of the first semester. NO referral needed.

2nd Grade

Students will undergo screening for referral recommendations based on MAP testing results.

1st - 5th Grade

Any student can be referred for GT identification testing by a parent, staff member, or student. Students CURRENTLY IDENTIFIED as GT in LCISD do NOT need to be reassessed.

5th Grade

All 5th grade students currently identified GT will advance to the secondary program without additional screening.

COGAT Scores

he Cognitive Abilities Test, or CogAT, tests three different types of abilities.

VERBAL

This section assesses your child's capacity to recall and manipulate sequences of English words. It measures their comprehension of word meanings and their ability to draw inferences from them.

QUANTITATIVE

This section focuses on numerical reasoning. It evaluates your child’s ability to identify relationships among numbers and equations. Tasks may include predicting the next number in a sequence and constructing equations using numbers and symbols.

NONVERBAL

This section primarily assesses geometric reasoning and spatial skills without reliance on verbal elements. Your child will be asked to identify similarities among shapes, for instance.

The scores listed on the CogAT Narrative compare performance to students in the age group. A score of 100 is average for the age group. Most students fall within 16 points of the average (84 to 116). A score of 130 indicates that the child demonstrates advanced development and accelerated proficiency in verbal, quantitative, or nonverbal reasoning skills compared to their peers within the same age range.