ALP and ICAP

1. ALP and ICAP Say What?

2. ALP • Advanced Learning Plan • Individualized plan for identified gifted students • Record of programming options and academic or talent goals that support the student’s strength area(s)and affective or behavioral needs • Collaboration between the student, parents and school

3. Contents of an ALP • Body of evidence that identifies interests, strengths and needs • Annual goal(s) for academic area(s) of strength • Annual affective goal • Programming options matched to strength areas • Annual review • Documentation of student achievement

4. ICAP • Individual Career and Academic Plan • Individualized plan for every student focusing on academic and career goals • Written in collaboration with student, parent and school • Postsecondary career and educational opportunities • Career exploration

5. ALP/ICAP • At the high school level, schools can combine the two documents into one • Must have collaboration between student, parent and school • Must address affective goals as well as academic and career goals • Affective goals address the social emotional or behavioral needs of the gifted student

6. Parent Responsibilities • Be involved in your child’s education plan • Understand the area(s) of giftedness for your child and his/her goals • Help to monitor your child’s needs are being met • Don’t forget the social and emotional goals

7. Delta’s ALP • Strengths: Check area(s) of strength and then describe how this student manifests these strengths. Samples of work may be included for documentation. Use the back of this page, if necessary. • General Intellectual • Social Studies • Leadership • Language Arts • Music • Psychomotor • Mathematical • Dramatics (Performing Arts) • Art • Creativity • Science • Visual • ELL • Spatial • Other (Explain) • Description of strengths as observed or demonstrated:

8. Programming Goals in area(s) of strength: • Student will perform at high proficient to advanced level on CSAP in areas of giftedness. • Student will demonstrate above grade level averages on tests in areas of giftedness. • Student will use creative problem solving to reach solutions to real life problems. • Student will use logical problem solving strategies to analyze and solve problems. • Student will use research skills to investigate and present data. • Student will demonstrate extended learning in a class, activity, project, or presentation in an area of interest.

9. Programming • What are the student’s interests? • Parent involvement • What delivery model, school setting, acceleration model, placement and/or grouping will be used to address student needs?

10. Other components • How will student’s growth be measured and what assessments will be used to measure student’s growth? • What resources will be used to help the student attain their ALP goal(s)? • Using research-based GT Programming Guides, which GT strategies will be used to achieve ALP goals? • What is the time frame for delivery of these educational strategies?

11. Parent Involvement Examples • Seek out and share information about community resources with schools. • Coordinate, facilitate, or provide transportation for content extension opportunities as needed. • Support their child with content extension assignments • Monitor student progress and satisfaction. • Commit to attend parent, teacher, student conferences to review academic achievement and social-emotional development. • Provide homework space and time • Be interested in school life • Talk about homework with child • Model mistakes and humor in fixing mistakes • Expect school attendance • Help your child be organized for school • Celebrate school successes • Assist child with realistic life goals and aspirations

12. Programming Examples • Classroom with flexible grouping • General education with peer-tutoring • Classroom with cross-grade grouping • General education with cluster-grouping • General education with resource room • Clusters for special interests • General education honors classroom • Advanced Placement/International Baccalaureate

13. Acceleration Examples Curriculum-Based • Single-subject acceleration • Concurrent/Joint Enrollment • Talent Search Program • Correspondence Course • Independent Study • Distance/Online Learning • Honors/AP/IB classes • Mentorships • Post-Secondary Options

14. Grade-Based • Early Entrance to Kindergarten • Grade Skipping • Non-graded classroom • Multi-age/Multi-grade classroom • Grade Telescoping • Testing Out • Early Admission to College

15. Depth Encourages students to venture further, deeper, with greater elaboration, through quality of subject matter, rules and ethics, language and patterns. It involves, learning from: • Concrete to abstract; • Familiar to unfamiliar • Known to unknown; • Literal to synthesized

16. Complexity Helps students make connections and identify relationships and associations between, within, and across subjects and disciplines. It focuses on: • Varying perspectives; • Issues, problems, and themes; • Conceptual learning

17. Novelty Encourages students to create a personal understanding or connection to the subject area, thereby making content more memorable. It provides opportunities to: • Interpret meaning and give personal insights; • Use non-traditional study methods; • Approach content through inquiry, experimentation, invention, and exploration; • Synthesize information using irony, paradox, and metaphors

18. Higher Order Thinking Skills • Questioning in discussions or providing activities based on processing that requires analysis, synthesis, evaluation, or other critical thinking skills

19. Affective Guidance and Counseling The process of addressing the social, emotional, and behavioral needs of the child that go beyond academics • Examples: • The student will demonstrate self-efficacy as demonstrated in a personalized journal. • The students will demonstrate high social skills as seen in teacher observations of peer interactions. • The student will talk about interests and aspirations for future planning during an interview. • The student will participate in social skill learning groups and demonstrate new positive behavior patterns.

20. Annual Review • Program review • Student survey • Parent survey