Features of development of gifted children
Children with high intellectual orcreative abilities are distinguished by their special psychomotor and social abilities, they easily achieve high results in many areas. This fact should be taken into account when teaching in comprehensive schools.Teaching gifted children requires a special approachPhoto: Getty The main qualities of talented children are:
- Thirst for new knowledge, ability for accelerated learning. This type of giftedness is called academic.
- An analytical mind and the ability to compare facts - an intellectual type.
- The ability to think and see the world outside the box - creative type.
In addition, such children strive to communicatewith adults, and they do it well. Their speech is always literate and correctly constructed, they have a good sense of humor and increased emotionality.
Education and training of talented children
Teachers have come up with several strategies for teaching talented children:
- Putting a child in an older group or class, where children are more intelligent than their peers. Thus, the gifted child will receive an additional incentive to learn.
- Children who have a pronounced predisposition to one of the subjects can be trained in special profile classes, with a more complex program for in-depth study of this subject.
- Adding to the general education classes special courses on topics and areas that are most interesting to a gifted child.
- Training the ability to reason. This approach involves posing several tasks for the child, in the process of solving which he must identify problems, analyze them, look for ways to solve them, comprehensively evaluate each of his options, generalize them and choose the right one.
All these approaches to teaching children with highintellectual and creative abilities help improve the child's creative and research skills. If you organize the education of a talented child correctly, you can avoid many problems in his development as a person. He will not experience a lack of educational material and communication, as well as dissynchronization of development.