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Teachers’ Attitude towards Educating Talented Students

Summary/Abstract: Teachers have a significant impact on students’ achievements and development of their talents. Attitudes of teachers help understand relationships with talented students and explain the work undertak-en for their development. They are also important for professional development and culture of school. If they are not conscious, they become a part of the hidden school curriculum, including the source of limitations in thinking and professional action. The article presents the results of the research on teachers’ attitude towards educating talented students. A five-point scale was used. The statements were divided into five fields of gifted education: teachers’ attitudes to-wards selecting students by their talents; identification; school sup-port; support from outside school; and their own competencies. The statements of early education teachers (NEW, N = 37) and senior class teachers (NKS, N = 69) were compared. From the perspective of talent development, students need different teachers and differ-ent types of support at these two stages of education. An early ed-ucation teacher should help students “to fall in love” with the field of their talents. A teacher of older students is responsible for teaching techniques required to gain specific competencies within the frame of a particular talent. The differences between both researched groups confirm that teachers of young and older students represent slightly different approaches in educating gifted students.

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