LISD Gifted and Talented Vision & Mission
GT Vision:
Empowering Gifted/Talented students to explore their passions and potential, embrace their abilities and unique giftedness
and thrive in the future they create.
GT Mission:
We inclusively identify, engage, build relationships and ignite a desire for learning through empowering Gifted/Talented students to explore their passions while meeting their unique social-emotional and educational needs every day.
The Gifted/Talented student will seek out challenges to:
• Promote scholarly behaviors that discover, develop and leverage capacity (Research)
• Effectively communicate and collaborate
• Foster critical thinking by manipulating abstract ideas and making deep connection
• Promote creativity and innovation
• Develop self-awareness and social consciousness
The Gifted/Talented student will:
• Become aware of his or her own unique potential and learning style in order to develop these abilities for the betterment of self and society.
• Utilize higher level thinking skills to develop intellectual curiosity in critical, creative and productive thinking.
• Understand and apply the problem-solving process in a cooperative group setting through analysis and evaluation of a real life situation.
• Develop reference skills for using multiple concepts and resources in synthesizing an advanced product.