Professional competences of preschool teachers for working with gifted young children in Slovenia

Čotar Konrad, Sonja; Kukanja-Gabrijelčič, Mojca

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Title:	Professional competences of preschool teachers for working with gifted young children in Slovenia
Authors:	ID Čotar Konrad, Sonja (Author) ID Kukanja-Gabrijelčič, Mojca (Author)
Files:	http://jegys.org/admin/b_bilgi_dosya/dosya/jegys-3-3-5.pdf
Language:	English
Work type:	Not categorized
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:	PEF - Faculty of Education
Abstract:	Recognizing giftedness in young preschool children presents an important challenge to all educators. Because giftedness needs nurturing, the aim of the research was to emphasize the importance of gifted children's right to adequate educational opportunities, which will stimulate the optimal development of their potentials. In order to achieve the latter, appropriately qualified preschool teachers are needed, in both diagnostic (the identification of the preschool gifted children) and educational field. The main purpose of the study (N=180) was to analyse professional qualifications and attitudes of preschool teachers in the area of identifying and working with gifted children from age 2 to age 6. The non-experimental causal method was used. The results of the research in Slovenia show the following problems: preschool teachers are inadequately informed about the issues concerning working with gifted children; they tend to have low self-competence in identifying personal characteristics of gifted children and in the appropriate use of teaching strategies when working with them; they stress the necessity for further education and professional training in the field of gifted children education.
Keywords:	nadarjeni otroci, vzgojitelji, strokovna usposobljenost
Year of publishing:	2015
Number of pages:	str. 65-78
Numbering:	Vol. 3, no. 2
PID:	20.500.12556/RUP-8375
ISSN:	2149-360X
UDC:	159.924:373.2
COBISS.SI-ID:	1538070468
Publication date in RUP:	08.08.2016
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