IDENTIFICATION OF HIGHLY GIFTED CHILDREN
IDENTIFICATION OF HIGHLY GIFTED CHILDREN

Summary/Abstract: We have recently witnessed an increased attention and focus of specialists on the problem area of highly gifted children, their identification, on finding the most adequate methods to develop their potentials and designing a proper legislation. This aspect is marked by the necessity to acknowledge and respect individual differences, based on human rights: gifted children need adequate educational opportunities to develop their inborn abilities. Identification and education of gifted children receives more and more attention from those responsible for their development, and we can see that the special place is given to excellence within the present educational system by developing excellence centres in several regions of the country. Implemented at the level of educational policy, the regulations well stipulated in education are worth of respect. The development of educational strategies to identify and train gifted children is an imperative in the pedagogy of highly gifted children. The text offers the outcomes of the considerations dealing with various approaches to identification of the gifted at different ate. Among other things, the conclusions point to the need to start with the identification as soon as possible and to include a number of methods.

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