Gifted Program

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.