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How can AIG 4 Latinos help you as the parent to reach the proper contacts?

Identifying your child is a process - Identification reading or math for your child is a four-step the process that includes 1), referral, 2,) screening, 3,) assessment of needs, and 4,) placement in appropriate service options. You will have to advocate for your child if the teacher or some other school authority has not already made contact with you. Go to the office of the administrator, either a teacher, counselor or the principal and ask that your child's Gifted Identification Team (GIT) team recommends he or she for Academically Gifted and Intellectual (AIG) testing. Once the test is completed and scored, you will be contacted. If your child has tested well and based on the results, the child will be removed from their current class and placed in a class for gifted students similar to him or her.

Laws and Policy

There are policies in place to make sure you and your child are treated with respect and care.

• What is Article 9B?
  

Article 9B, Academically or Intellectually Gifted Students [N.C.G.S. § 115C-150.5-.8 (Article 9B)] is the current legislation requiring identification and school services for gifted education K-12 in North Carolina public schools. 

• What is the role of Harnett County's AIG plan?
  

A team of teachers will consider all the identifying criteria to determine if your child is gifted in reading, math or both and what modifications your child can receive.

• How do North Carolina AIG program standards support the development of the AIG plans? 

Harnett has an AIG program in action and has currently received three $1500 grants to purchase items to help students learn coding,  resources to enhance the technology and to experience virtual reality in the classroom.

Identifying Giftedness

What the characteristics that help you to identify and understand giftedness? 

The following are a list of 9 traits or characteristics, not exhaustive nor are they generalized to all gifted students but may apply to your child. 

1. He or she may start to think in an abstract term that is often complex, logical, and insightful. 
   
2. The child ideas presented and their sense of justice is developed at an early age. 
   
3. Often times, depending on the age, the child is concerned with social and political issues and injustices that most students are not. 
   
4. Normally the attention span is not beyond the length of their age however the child tends to have a longer attention span.
   
5. The child is able to display an intense concentration when given a task. 
   
6. Most times the child is preoccupied with own thoughts and are considered as daydreamers.
   
7. The child put a wide range of ideas or things together that are not typical.
   
8. The child is highly curious. 
   
9. Most times you will find the child asking a question in an effort to organize people or things through games or complex schemes.