Mission

"The mission of educational programs for gifted and talented children and youth is to realize the potential of gifted and talented students through the design, delivery, and assessment of academic and/or arts curricula that match these students’ unique intellectual and/or artistic potential while maintaining support for their social and emotional development." - South Carolina Department Of Education

Definition

“Gifted and talented students are those who are identified in grades 1-12 as demonstrating high- performance ability or potential in academic and/or artistic areas and therefore require educational programming beyond that normally provided by the general school programming in order to achieve their potential.” - South Carolina Department Of Education

We continue to improve our academic G/T Program through the incorporation of research-based practices and materials designed to promote thinking and reasoning. This year our district’s Gifted and Talented Program is pleased to announce an affiliation with Harvard University’s Education Department. Through this affiliation, we will implement a variety of practices and strategies designed to strengthen and enhance student thinking. The program is called Making Thinking Visible (MTV) and it is an important part of Harvard’s Project Zero.

Many of our highly qualified teachers have already taken part in MTV training workshops, and some have even attended the most recent MTV conference (along with educators from across the globe) to gain expertise in the introduction of thinking routines. The remaining teachers will be trained with MTV during this school year. Many of the G/T Program teachers will also be taking coursework through Harvard.

For more information about visible thinking please visit the following site:
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/projects/visible-thinking.