Teacher’s readiness for pedagogical support of gifted students in the context of educational practice
Abstract
The article considers the problem of teacher’s readiness for pedagogical support of gifted students in general secondary education institutions. The author analyzes the concept of readiness, based on the intelligence of well-known Ukrainian scientists, and agrees with them that this phenomenon is a complex synthetic formation, which is formed in pedagogical activity. The author also notes that the pedagogical support of gifted students is essentially an innovative activity, as the segment of education that directly cares for gifted students is insignificant.
In order to visualize the content of the studied problem, the author uses a modeling methodology. Convincingly presented approaches to the creation of a pedagogical model allow the author to minimize the visual range and at the same time to fill it with the content load. The model of teacher’s readiness for pedagogical support presented in the article clearly demonstrates the structure of the phenomenon and the main communicative connections that play a leading role in its formation.
The author attaches special importance to the operational aspect of the teacher's readiness to provide pedagogical support to gifted children and youth. Emphasis is placed on the need for special knowledge about giftedness, its types and manifestations in children, the characteristics of the gifted contingent, ways to develop giftedness and more.
Particular emphasis is placed on the communicative competence of the teacher, which is a component of productive cooperation with students in their personal development. Based on the results of the experimental sites of the Institute of Gifted Children of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, it is stated that the policy of general secondary education is aimed at finding and developing gifted children and combining efforts of teaching staff, administration and socio-psychological service to achieve a common goal – the development of gifted students.
