Nominations for GT Screening and Selction:
February 7 through February 17, 2012. Please contact your child's teacher.
The Texas State Plan for the Education of Gifted/Talented Students indicates five categories of giftedness: general intellectual ability, specific academic aptitude, creativity, leadership, and visual/performing arts. Mission CISD serves students who are currently identified as advanced intellectually and academically. Their giftedness may surface as an outstanding aptitude in one or more of the areas of language arts, math, science, social studies, or in their ability to process information more rapidly with greater depth and complexity. MCISD is committed to meeting the needs of all the children in its schools, including those of high academic/intellectual ability whose needs may not be met by the regular curriculum.
The Gifted/Talented program seeks to provide an appropriate match between a child's ability, interest, and motivation, while providing the educational opportunities that can nurture these qualities to the highest degree. Students in the K-12 Gifted/Talented program interact with trained teachers who recognize the students' special needs. The teachers design and implement instruction to meet those needs. In recognizing the special educational needs of these children and by providing for those needs, MCISD seeks to encourage gifted/talented children to continue in the lifelong development and acquisition of knowledge as they become adults, and to become responsible contributors of their community and society.
This program guide outlines the defined areas of gifted education in which MCISD offers gifted education services. The belief is that the nature and unique needs established by this document provide the basis for differentiated curriculum, instruction, and assessment of the gifted learners.
Program Goals
The goals for the MCISD Gifted/Talented Program enable students to become well-rounded individuals whose education allows them opportunities to grow in their areas of giftedness. With this in mind, the following goals have been adopted:
- Gifted/Talented students will develop a more positive self-concept and sense of self-esteem through effective interaction with adults and peers in multiple settings.
- Gifted/Talented students will engage in self-directed learning and independent research at an advanced and complex level as a precursor to continuing self-motivation, exploration, discovery, and lifelong learning.
- Gifted/Talented students will develop advanced critical/creative thinking skills and will apply them in problem solving tasks and increasing advanced intellectual products.
- Gifted/Talented students will experience topics at a greater depth and complexity and will integrate these concepts across the content areas.