My Aig Characteristics

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We are into the second quarter of school now and Will is continuing to exhibit strong AIG characteristics. Consequently, he prepared his flawless power point presentation speaking confidentially in front of his peers and providing an almost perfect power point with all but one aspect of the rubric being followed in detail. I noticed the day after his power point presentation when I began the introduction of our new project, a Comic Life scenario using elements of non-fiction, he had a “what now” look on his face. Subsequently, this project requires the student to select a non-fiction topic, chose three essential questions, research the questions, prepare an introduction, and writ three paragraphs supporting the essential questions. Amazingly, …show more content…
We have had to do some routine middle school activities such as our “Spelling Bee” where Will missed 17 of the 25 words. After scoring a recent reading comprehension paper, he missed 3 out of 15 on a comprehension passage. Also during the same week (Halloween), my perfectionist totally shocked me; he made a 68 on his vocabulary homework. From day one, the requirements have been that all the words must be spelled correctly because they are included in the homework packet. His errors were totally careless. He misspelled 5 words in the section relating to context clues and 3 questions from the article relating to structure and author’s purpose. These mistakes could have been explained except he had the materials he needed to support the correct answers in his vocabulary notebook. Seeing these grades puzzled me so I went to the cumulative files and pulled his AIG ELA testing scores. I needed to know how had he been admitted into the AIG program? When he took the CogAT in third grade, he made a 99 Subtest Q score that kicks him straight into math AIG. His ELA score was only 75, Subtest NV was 65, and his composite was 91. Math scores had gotten him into the program. He loves math since it comes naturally to him. As his ELA teacher, I need to push him to pay more attention to the requirements of his assignments. He is very capable of doing well in both areas, but he may have to apply himself more effectively in