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Pedagogic-didactic concept in bringing up and educating gifted children

The upbringing and education of gifted children is all the more becoming a central theme in pedagogy, trying to research, perceive and contribute to as completely possible a pedagogicdidactic concept that would enable a maximal development of capacities – whether general (intelligence) or specifically for mathematics, technique, music, literary, artistic expression and independence, curiosity, original way of thinking, high level of creativity and similar. Its desire is, at the same time, to reach the competence profile of contemporary educators/teachers in order to improve at the most their role in identifying and working with gifted children. This work would like to contribute to the above mentioned in first taking into consideration the starting point discovering and identifying the gifted. Then the work views the programmes of giftedness encouragement in preschool institutions, work with the gifted in elementary school and the competence of educators and teachers in working with gifted children. Bearing in mind the importance of acknowledging and developing giftedness, the conclusion points out the need of recognizing specific individual potential in a child already in the preschool and early school period and thus direct it adequately and support its development so that special programmes and adequate teaching atmosphere may timely work on stimulating and developing their giftedness.

gifted children and pupils, programmes, educator and teacher competences

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