Our Gifted Program Contacts

OUR MISSION STATEMENT

The primary outcome for the Picayune School District Gifted Education Program is Metacognition, a process skill requiring mastery of and use of many other process skills. Metacognition is the ability to understand one’s own thinking processes combined with the ability to bring together one’s total learning experiences (cognitive and affective) to bear on a new situation, enabling one to appropriately apply that understanding to and empower the new endeavor, action responsibly to enjoy the self-motivated discovery of new ideas and or solutions.

OUR PURPOSE

To ensure that gifted children who demonstrate unusually high potential as described in the below definitions are identified and offered an appropriate education based upon their exceptional abilities. Because of their unusual capabilities, they require uniquely qualitatively different educational experiences not available in the regular classroom. 

FAMILY RESOURCES

To locate the gifted handbook, gifted outcomes, support websites, review the gifted referral process, and more please click the link below.