The teacher and the gifted student: a situation at the border between the atypical manifestation of the student and the standardized requirements of the school
Gabriel Albu
Petroleum Gas University, Blvd. Bucuresti, nr. 39, Ploiesti, 100600, Romania
Abstract
In Romania, within the current context of education reform (whose too frequent and incoherent changes create a feeling of uncertainty and anguish among the large majority of teachers), the gifted student is almost neglected. Also, in their daily activity, preoccupied with (total) quality management, with educational management, time and material resources management, finances and project management, with truancy issues and school violence and what not, policy makers and teachers are left with very little time and energy to deal with this special category of students. It is necessary to design a training program to move from a holistic pedagogy, suited for collectivities, to one of exceptions and excellence. Once acquired, it will prepare the teacher mentally and attitudinally to recognize the gifted student (in the large mass of students), to know how to work with him, to advise him and prepare him for the time when, after graduation, he will enter life, so that his exceptional potential would not go to waste in the minor register of existence.
Keywords: gifted student; teacher; teaching excellence