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Identidication and Work with The Gifted Children in Primary Education

Identification and teaching of the gifted children have been one of the pedagogical themes with particular emphasis recently, because of the importance of gifted individuals for the prosperity of society. In order to develop giftedness in its fullest sense, it is important to identify potentially gifted children as early as possible, preferably during the primary education. Although it is possible to recognize the elements of children's gifts at pre-school age, it is extremely important to start working with them as soon as possible. In addition to regular teaching, the school curriculum offers a range of opportunities for realizing various activities to encourage giftedness. In order to examine the methods of identification and teaching of the gifted children in primary education, an empiric research was conducted among the teachers in primary education of the County of Split and Dalmatia and the County of Dubrovnik and Neretva of the Republic of Croatia. The results of the research show the frequency of the identification of gifted children in schools as well as the ways of teaching them. They also show self-evaluation of the teacher's own competence to teach the gifted children as well as the limitation they encounter in teaching them, and the ways of training for the same. All of the results obtained can be of the utmost importance as indicators of the current implementation of work with the gifted children, but also as clear guidelines for planning of the teacher's training and programes in studies of the faculty of early education.

giftedness ; identification, primary education ; supporting gifted children ; school curriculum

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