Evolution of scientific ideas about giftedness

Abstract

Currently, working with gifted children is one of the priority areas of work in the country and regions. Special attention is paid to this issue in the construction of an all-Russian system for the identification, support and development of abilities and talents in children and youth. One of the key substantive guidelines and at the same time mandatory for the implementation of state program documents in the system of working with gifted children was the federal project “Success of each child,” implemented as part of the national project “Education.” In a modern school, the issue of individualization of the educational process and the work of identifying and supporting gifted children is becoming more and more urgent - two important priorities of modern educational policy, which are closely related because, on the one hand, work on the development and disclosure of talent almost always requires an individual approach, and on the other hand, any individualization always, directly or indirectly, helps school student to believe in forces. The article analyses scientific ideas about giftedness as a set of personal characteristics that have developed independently of the will of the person himself and, especially, his teacher-mentors; the phenomenon of giftedness is considered in terms of the outstanding abilities of a particular person (child) given to him by nature and requiring timely development and targeted support through professional pedagogical tools. It is proposed to consideration of the author’s definition of an individual educational program (IOP), which involves the construction by an adult of a system of educational activity as a model of the personal world, a personal universe, which at the same time allows this person to realize potential - and is itself the product of his ideas and actions.