TAG Programs and Services

Programs and Services

According to state law, every school district must have a written plan of programs and services for TAG students. In Eugene 4J, the district plan includes individual TAG building plans that describe the specifics of TAG programs and procedures at the site level.

A TAG building representative is selected at each school and is available to answer any site specific questions regarding implementation of programs and services. Most importantly the instruction provided to identified students must address their assessed levels of learning.

The mandate requires that parents are given the opportunity to provide input and discuss with the district the programs and services for their child. Terms used during that process may include:

Acceleration -- Children are encouraged to master material at a higher level and at a faster rate than is done in the regular curriculum.

Ability-Grouping -- Students are grouped within a skill area. Grouping may be within the classroom, at grade level, or across grade levels.

Early Entrance -- Children may enter a higher level of schooling (i.e. kindergarten, first grade, junior high, high school, or college) prior to the standard age for these grades.

Grade-Skipping -- Students are placed in a higher grade ahead of usual placement.

Cross-Grade Grouping -- Students may be ability grouped with students in a higher grade.

Compacted Curriculum -- The amount of time normally required to master a subject is reduced; often a pre-test to determine current level of mastery is combined with decreased review of fully mastered skills.

Advanced Placement -- Formal AP curriculum in which high school students can complete a course and take an AP exam for college credit. Student may also be placed in a class more advanced than the student's age.

International Baccalaureate -- Formal IB curriculum approved by Switzerland's renowned International Baccalaureate program and incorporated into 4J's International High Schools. Students may take an IB exam for college credit.

Concurrent Enrollment -- Allows students to take classes in the next higher level of school while obtaining credit in both settings.

Duck Link -- Duck Link is a 4J/University of Oregon partnership that makes it possible for selected high school students to enroll in UO courses at a reduced rate.

Other options available to students may include independent study, outside classes, academic competition, summer programs, and many others.