Preparation Of Teachers For Work With Gifted Students

Abstract

The relevance of the study is due to the need to improve work with gifted students, and, accordingly, to improve the preparation of teachers for organizing this activity. The study reflects the global trend of creating special conditions for the development of giftedness and improving the professionalism of teachers in this area. This article is aimed at the analysis of regional conditions for the development of gifted students and the justification of the organizational and pedagogical conditions for preparing teachers for this process. The main research method was a questionnaire, which allowed for regional monitoring of the conditions for the development of students' giftedness. The method of comparative analysis of the literature was also used to determine the basic concepts of the study. The article presents the validated results of the pedagogical experiment testing the organizational and pedagogical conditions for preparing teachers for specific work with gifted students, including organizational and methodological activities. It shows creating a database of teachers who trained schoolchildren - winners and prizewinners of Olympiads; monitoring on the topic “Assessing the conditions for the development of gifted students in general educational organizations of the Stavropol Territory “. It shows scientific and methodological orientation (holding webinars, seminars, competitions, conferences for teachers working with gifted students; interaction with leading publishers of the Russian Federation to prepare students for the Olympiads); and educational and methodological orientation (the implementation of programs of additional professional education (advanced training, retraining) reflecting the features of working with students who have shown outstanding abilities).