Views of professionals in kindergarten to talent and taleneted children

摘要

Many experts are defining talent, although in the literature we cannot find a unite definition. The reason lies in the fact that the gifted are not a homogeneous group, but they show talent in various forms and degrees. So it is necessary to create a supportive environment for pre-school age children, so they can get as many opportunities to develop their potentials and professional pre-school workers can notice those children who stand out in specific areas. However, as yet there is no uniform definition of giftedness, it is important that we are not too narrowly focused in identifying talent, but to keep definition, which was adopted by the American Association for the gifted and states that the gifted is one who is consistently superior to any field of activity. Thus, we can conclude that one child can be defined as talented in the case of above-average results repeated several times, but it is also important that we enable appropriate conditions, that his talent can be expressed.udIn the US Education Act talented we can read that as talented define those children and adolescents who are either in pre-school, primary or secondary school showed high performance and potential in intellectual, creative, specific academic, managerial or the arts, and which in addition to the regular school program need specially tailored programs and activities. And also with us M. Juriševič defined a talent as ability of an above-average consistent performance of pupils in intellectual, creative, learning (language, mathematics, social science, science, technical), arts (music, art, drama, literary ...) And body-locomotor or sports. We can see that the talent is expressed in all areas of human activity and that identifying talented children is a challenging task.udDiscovering talented children and work with them in the preschool period may have a very important role in the early development of talent. Professional pre-school workers daily spend a lot of time with children and plan activities for them. It is important that they know how their work could influence on the development of any child talent. How and what will they work, however, depends primarily on their views on the talent and gifted children, and how this perception and their beliefs affect on their work and behavior in contact with gifted.udThe aim of the empirical research is to determine what positions occupied professionals in kindergarten to talent and gifted children and how it is reflected in their work. For this purpose I prepared a questionnaire, which I shared in some kindergartens in Dolenjska.udI discovered that generally professionals have positive views to talent, that they find out talented children and do their best to plan and work with them so they can develop their talents.udud