Resource Room

The delivery model for Floyd County Schools at the elementary level is the resource pull-out model with its emphasis on interdisciplinary thematic studies.  This program requires that students be pulled out of the regular classroom.  Students who are identified as gifted are required by State Regulations to be served a minimum of 5 segments per week and may be served a maximum of 10 segments.  Service for gifted students is a state requirement to meet their individual needs and cannot be used as an option, reward, or a privilege.

Grades in Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope students are evaluated annually through the Annual Review.  Each student is graded with S, N, or U in the areas of attendance, class participation, completion of assignments, and behavior.  In addition, progress reports will be sent home with report cards every 9 weeks or at the end of a unit.

Make-Up Work in the Regular Classroom

1. Students who are pulled out of class for Kaleidoscope are counted present in every class missed because their Kaleidoscope service is a part of their educational plan.  They should not be required to make-up all of the assignments missed in the regular classroom.
   
   
2. The students are not responsible for completing every worksheet or activity that is assigned in their absence.  Rather, the students need only to have met the instructional objectives.  This same principle applies to homework.  This does not mean that students are excused from homework.  However, if the regular class has the opportunity to begin work on their homework assignments in class while the Kaleidoscope does not, please consider the total amount of homework that the Kaleidoscope student will have to complete.
   
   
3. Each teacher should help ensure that Kaleidoscope students have the opportunity to receive appropriate services without penalty.  Our students should not feel punished by being overloaded with classwork or homework waiting for them when they return from Kaleidoscope class.  If this happens, we are penalizing our students, rather than supporting their right to service in their special needs area.
   
   
4. Kaleidoscope students should not be denied academic recognition and awards due to time or work missed while receiving Kaleidoscope services.
   
   
5. Tests, labs, reports, projects, and other major assignments should not be made-up before or after school.  The teacher and student should work together to make alternate arrangements to assure that the assignment is completed in a reasonable time period agreed upon by the teacher and the student.
   
   
6. Time spent in the Kaleidoscope program is governed by State Regulations.  Therefore, students are not to miss any of the scheduled time for Kaleidoscope.  Classroom assignments due on the day the student is to attend Kaleidoscope are to be turned in later that day or the next scheduled class time.
   
   
7. Kaleidoscope students should succeed in their academic classes.  By not requiring all daily assignments in addition to Kaleidoscope assignments for these students, the classroom teacher can take some of the pressure off and encourage their success.  The thinking skills gifted students are learning and practicing in Kaleidoscope can only enhance their performance in regular education classes.

Grades in the Regular Classroom

Students should be given the chance to make-up any graded work (tests, projects, classwork) they missed while in Kaleidoscope.  Students can not be given a 0 on an assignment or test due to their absence while in Kaleidoscope.  The teacher and student should work together for the student to make-up this grade, or exclude that particular assignment from the average.

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