And contact the Office of Access and Enrollment. There is one International Gifted Program in the Chicago Public Schools. Comprehensive Gifted Programs. And contact the Office of Access and Enrollment. There is one International Gifted Program in the Chicago Public Schools. Comprehensive Gifted Programs. Chicago Public Schools Gifted Programs Testing. Psychologists who do Psychological Testing. The list below is of licensed, doctoral. The Edison Regional Gifted Center groups students. Public Transit. Students can apply online or via paper Selective Enrollment Elementary Schools.

Testing is conducted by doctoral students in Illinois Institute of Technology's clinical psychology program, who are overseen by professors. Prospective kindergartners are tested one-on-one, with the kids answering questions orally or perhaps pointing to a picture that answers it. For classical programs like Decatur and Skinner West, the admissions test measures a child's knowledge in reading and mathematics — a straightforward achievement test like the Illinois Standards Achievement Test. While CPS says the cutoff score is the 80th percentile, most parents find their kids need to score in the high 90s to have a shot. Experienced parents advise helping prepare for that test using a first- or second-grade workbook in reading or math, or practicing phonetics and simple math problems with the children. For regional gifted centers like Edison and Coonley, CPS says scores of 115 are the cutoff, but savvy parents advise that a strong score like 130 is higher than the 95th percentile and more likely to lead to an acceptance letter. The gifted program test does not test for a child's IQ, but it is a cognitive test that measures various skills like problem solving, mental control and logical thinking.

'It's not a process that tests for giftedness per se,' Hopkins said. 'It tests for kids who have academic potential. The best predictor of future behavior is the child's behavior now.' Parents often find it more difficult understanding abstract concepts like critical thinking and wonder how to prepare their kids. 'When children combine cognitive skills to evaluate what they see, hear and read, and then make decisions, reach conclusions or solve problems based on analysis of information, they are using critical thinking skills,' explained Karen Quinn, author of 'Testing for Kindergarten.' Quinn said drawing analogies and reasoning are important components to critical thinking.

Exfat Driver Update. To prepare for gifted tests, she adds that children need to be able to: •Compile information through observations (watching, listening, reading). •Sort, classify and compare once information has been gathered — put things in groups, notice similarities and differences. •Reason — look at different sides of an issue, reach conclusions and form opinions.

•Use short-term memory — CPS describes it as having mental control, or the ability to retrieve information given within the last few seconds, hold it and then complete a task with that information. •Hypothesize — children should be able to predict what is likely to happen next. •Problem-solve — generate ideas and look for alternatives to solve problems. 'If you go to a grocery store, you can ask your child, 'A fruit is to a grocery store what a hammer is to a hardware store,' Quinn said.

'It's making those types of connections.'