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Parent/Guardian Resources

Message for All Families

Whether your child is already identified as gifted and talented or you are hoping to support that process, we encourage you to use your child's data to really get to know their relative strengths and weaknesses to better support them at home! We hope you find these resources helpful, and we encourage you to reach out to your child's teacher/s and/or our department with additional questions. 

Please see our the following webpages for specific information about the identification process and our gifted service in schools. 

Cognitive Abilities Test (cogAT) Resources

Understanding Your Child's CogAT Score Report

Thank you to the families who were able to attend one of our informational Zooms regarding your child's CogAT score report and GT identification!

We know not every family was able to attend. We have provided the following resources to share the information from the Zooms. While our informational Zooms were separated by grade bands, we are posting one slide deck and one recording that applied to all grade bands.

Please don't hesitate to reach out to us with any specific and/or additional questions at our GTAcademic@charleston.k12.sc.us email.

CCSD Resources for supporting your child's learning at home

There are many ways to continue to support your child's learning and enrichment at home. Below are some resources to help:

Wondering how you can develop critical reasoning skills for your child? We strongly advocate game play as a fun and inviting way to deepen thinking skills and allow for social interaction with family bonding. This "master games list" is broken down into categories for verbal, quantitative, and nonverbal, which match the different types of thinking assessed on cognitive assessments like the CogAT (Cognitive Abilities Test). This test is given to all second graders in South Carolina and any student in grades 3-11 who is nominated/referred for additional gifted and talented screening. Game play can be used to extend and enrich skills that are already a strength for a child, but they can also be used to build confidence and support skills that are relatively weaker for students. As an added bonus, these can be great gift ideas!

Online Parent/Guardian Resources and Additional Opportunities