Target Mission

Our Mission:

     The Georgia State Board describes a gifted student as, “ …a student who demonstrates a high degree of intellectual and/or creative ability(ies), and demonstrates a high degree of motivation, and/or excels in specific academic fields, and who needs special instruction and/or ancillary services to achieve at levels commensurate with his or her abilities.

     Cobb Countyprovides services for identified gifted students in first through twelfth grade. The gifted program is designed to meet the very specific needs of these students and extend competencies in the areas of cognitive skills, learning skills, research and reference skills, communication skills, and metacognitive skills beyond the experience of the regular classroom.   

     The Gifted Program Curriculum is said to be “differentiated.” Students are involved in various activities which are more advanced, more mature, more sophisticated, and more complex in three areas: content, process, and expectations. The content is often multi-disciplined, designed not only to broaden a child’s base of general knowledge, but also to enhance the child’s ability to think productively and creatively. Our curriculum is process-based, not content-based. The expectations for performance are higher because the content and process are more advanced and complex. ALP/Target students are expected to perform in a more sophisticated, advanced, and complex manner. In general, we expect our student’s products to be more elaborate, better conceived and executed, more creative, more detailed and intricate, and superior to those produced in the regular classroom. Expectations are higher for gifted students who are measured by different standards or a different yardstick of excellence.