<p>This doesn't really have to do with high school, but I figured some high schoolers might know about this.</p>
<p>Has anyone heard of the Talented and Gifted (TAG) program? I took it from 4th-6th grade, and thought it was only a Michigan thing. However, I was reading the book "Bee Season," and it was mentioned in there!</p>
<p>Has anyone else been in this program?</p>
<p>yeah we have it here in ohio. I wasn't in it but my former best friend was and I was very jealous :(</p>
<p>TAG us just one name used there are many others and they vary by school, school district etc. Qualifying varies and there is no real standard that I am aware of.</p>
<p>I was in a similar program (we called it a different name) from grades 4 to 9. In my city, it's actually offered from grade 4 to 12, but the school with the program was just too far away from my house to make it practical. </p>
<p>To get into the program, every student had to take an IQ test (the program coordinators gave us a list of psychologists) and score a minimum of 130. I've heard that if someone scored exceptionally high on one section of the test, but didn't get an overall of 130+ they could still be admitted.</p>
<p>TAG is a certain program though for 4th-6th graders. There are other programs, but this one is standarized i'm pretty sure</p>
<p>I thought that TAG used a Renzulli selection process. Also....standardized to and for what? It is certainly not scoring for each year there is a different applicant pool and a differing number of seats available. So in some years it is a high level and some not so high.</p>
<p>The programs are all over the country, and the local school systems determine the selection factors.</p>
<p>They are all over the country and also all over the place.</p>
<p>It's called GT (Gifted and Talented) in Texas. I got in 3rd grade. I know the selection was an IQ tests (that they had administer the year prior to all the students), and a creativity test. In high school, we have seminars, where all the GT high school kids meet, like once every 3-4 months, to learn about something.</p>
<p>It is interesting that the schools come up with so many students included in these programs IF the selection is IQ based. When looking at the statistics for folks with high IQ and the % of population I would believe that other criteria are also used and that the IQ threshold must not be too high. While I am mostly in support of these programs they still have a wide range of IQs and folks tend to not look at it as 30pts of difference is a wide range when comparing those with/without.</p>
<p>My little sister is in the TAG program at her middle school. She's been in it since 1st grade. I think she got tested in English, Reading, and Math, but I'm not sure.</p>
<p>We had a specified TAG test in 3rd grade. The program went from 4th-6th grade. We were then put into AT classes in junior high, without having to test. Interesting, the differences across the country.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if colleges take TAG (and similar programs) into account when looking at applications? Because the program was 4th-6th grade, I don't know if it would count.</p>
<p>No, colleges don't take gifted programs into account. That's because those programs usually end at the high school level, and colleges are concerned with high school grades, scores, curriculum and activities. </p>
<p>What colleges do take into account are whether one has been in AP, IB or honors classes in high school. </p>
<p>When it comes to top colleges, virtually all applicants would qualify for gifted programs as one needs high intelligence in order to handle the high school curriculum and have the scores and grades that those colleges require.</p>
<p>and its called GATE in canada. gifted and talented education</p>
<p>we call it VENTURE here. talk about long acronyms, I don't even know what it stands for!</p>
<p>We have 3 programs - Challenge for 3rd and 4th grader, Gray Matters (well, now it's Quest because people called it Gay Matters) for 5th and 6th, and Horizons for 7th and 8th.</p>
<p>"Gray Matters (well, now it's Quest because people called it Gay Matters)"</p>
<p>That's sad. When I was in TAG, people made up "TAG fags." Children can be so horrible to each other.</p>
<p><em>sigh</em> IQ tests are overrated. Tracking students needs to be done on the basis of interest, not "ability" measured in stupid IQ tests that some strong student could do bad on just because of a bad day or because of whatever.</p>
<p>I live in south GA and we have that program. I been in since kindergarten and when i was in 3rd grade they started calling it PACES. I can't remember what it stands for. I'm a high school senior now and I'm still in it, but it consists of all honors and AP classes. I guess I'm supposed to be smart of something.</p>
<p>Also in response to that whole "gay matters" thing, they called us SpEd. Monkeys because one of our teachers made the mistake of telling her students that Gifted class was special education for more advanced kids. Then, they started calling the actual special education class the "Not So Special Ed". It was crazy. What made it worse was the fact that the 2 classrooms were across the hall from each other. "the gifted and the not so gifted wing" as it was called.</p>
<p>Also I have a question. I made a 990 on the SAT when I was in seventh grade. Was that a pretty good score for my age? Ive always wondered that.</p>
<p>We had it in our elementary school in CT. It used to be called TAG but then all the kids who werent in it felt they weren't " talented and gifted", so they changed it to R.E.A.C.H. for Region (10) Exceptional Abilities CHallenge (Program). It was only for 4th and 5th graders. In 5th grade, everyone in the grade did it, but select people did another branch of it. My sister took it, then I did.
In 4th grade it was all "experiments" we took tests discovering what kind of "talents" and "knowledge" we had and were geared towards. We dissected baby sharks and got out of class for 2 hours every Friday, etc. We made "maps of our lives", which some kids shredded on the bus and I had to do over the day before it was due.
In 5th Grade we started with Afghanistan Vs. The US projects in the aftermath of September 11th, writing essays, patriotic song parodies. Then we did " Type III projects". This was basically " Choose any topic you want, then follow my guidelines and do what I want." I sort of liked it, but the teacher was just terrible.</p>