Advanced Placement Programs and Gifted Students
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Elisaa Brown
Elissa Brown, Ph.D., is the Statewide Director of Secondary Projects at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, where she facilitates coordination of large-scale state initiatives for middle and high schools. In addition, she serves as a Regional Lead for the Statewide System of Support model as part of Race to the Top.
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Advanced Placement Programs and Gifted Students - Elisaa Brown
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Series Preface
The Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education offers teachers, counselors, administrators, parents, and other interested parties up-to-date instructional techniques and information on a variety of issues pertinent to the field of gifted education. Each guide addresses a focused topic and is written by an individual with authority on the issue. Several guides have been published. Among the titles are:
Acceleration Strategies for Teaching Gifted Learners
Curriculum Compacting: An Easy Start to Differentiating for High-Potential Students
Enrichment Opportunities for Gifted Learners
Independent Study for Gifted Learners
Motivating Gifted Learners
Questioning Strategies for Teaching the Gifted
Social & Emotional Teaching Strategies
Using Media & Technology with Gifted Students
For a current listing of available guides within the series, please contact Prufrock Press at 800-998-2208 or visit http://www. prufrock.com.
Introduction
The predominant service delivery option for secondary gifted students in America’s high schools for the past two decades has been Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) programs (Callahan, 2003). The AP program was developed by the College Board in the mid-1950s and was never intended to be specifically for gifted students. At its inception, the AP program enrolled about 1,200 students; however, today the program boasts more than 1 million students. Similarly, the IB program, introduced in the early 1970s, enrolls more than 30,000 students nationwide (International Baccalaureate North America, 2004). For thousands of students, the courses associated with these two programs represent the first time in which they feel academically challenged, are taught by teachers with great depth of content knowledge, and are in an enriching and comfortable learning environment. Students do not have to be formally identified as gifted to enroll in either AP or IB courses; however, some schools or school systems do establish criteria to determine student readiness for participating in these courses. Table 1 provides the purpose and criteria for eligibility for both the AP and IB programs.
Table 1
Purpose and Criteria for Advanced Placement and
International Baccalaureate