If you work with children, it means that you already have some knowledge about human psychology. Not always the family in which the child lives and is brought up, can reveal some of his talents and abilities, and sometimes even vice versa, is able to "lock in" a little man. How to be?
Features of working with children
And at school, despite all the methods, training is aimed at a group of children, and not at each child individually, so it is difficult to consider gifted children immediately. To prevent this, an individual work program is applied.
Gifted children, doing it, can maximize their potential. Difficult, but possible, as they say. The makings given to the child by nature, and the surrounding social environment form a personality, show the degree of giftedness of the individual. How to work with gifted children? It requires tolerance, observation and patience, everything will come with time.
How to notice features in a child?
If a child is gifted, then since childhood he has been trying to take part in various activities, there is more than enough energy in him. He focuses on things, ponders their purpose, reflects on what he sees around, perceives the environment better than his peers. It is at this age that it is relevant to use an individual work plan with a gifted child.
While still very young, he pays attention to every sound and rustle, to every movement around him, especially if he had never heard or seen such before. The kid does not like to sit still, it is impossible to calmly sit him at the table or put him to bed.
Speaking of a dream: gifted children spend little time sleeping, they start to get up early, sit down, crawl, walk ... When a child starts talking, he thinks and expresses his thoughts in a very adult way, in his vocabulary there are much more words than his peers. Gifted children are usually referred to as “pochumuchki”, as they ask many questions to parents and other family members.
In addition, they have a good memory, quickly remember works of literature and remember them for a long time. So it is with events: they can retell in detail what happened a long time ago, about which other people have already forgotten. This allows you to apply an individual plan of work with a gifted child from an early age.
Children show early creative abilities, they want to create (to draw, sing, play a musical instrument, dance, sculpt from clay and create something with their own hands ...), to do something that could convey their deep feelings and emotions.
Children's wishes
Perfectionism is the main quality of a gifted child. There are both positive and negative sides to this. From early childhood, gifted children want the result of any of their activities to be ideal, and if something goes wrong, they take it and remake it. Because of the desire to be the best, their self-esteem is very rarely underestimated. Children really want to be paid more attention to them than to their other peers. They set goals for themselves, which it is often simply impossible to achieve due to some circumstances. Sometimes they think that they are underestimated, dislike, believe that the words and gestures of others to their person are aimed at offending or offending pride, which is actually usually not the case.
The negative side also includes the fact that gifted children are contemptuous of children whose intellectual development is lower than them.
The giftedness of children at a high level usually turns into talent. That is why, when interacting with such a little man, they use an individual work plan with a gifted child. How to create such a training program?
The first steps
In order for the progress of society not to stand still, a worthy replacement should be left behind, and a new generation should be nurtured. Society needs people not only from the category of “ordinary labor”, but also new scientists, brilliant inventors, scientists and biologists, talented artists and dancers. Therefore, in addition to the educational program for gifted children and adolescents, schools, gymnasiums and lyceums usually offer some types of amateur activities (library work, theater classes, master classes in drawing and music, unions of young naturalists, creative workshops, round tables, weekly competitions and much, much more). The guys are very fond of some difficult puzzles and tasks and can not stand, if they are immediately provided with answers to them, they can find the answer for themselves. In order for a small person to better acquire knowledge and improve his skills, an individual program of work with gifted children is needed, the features and its nuances must be constantly improved. Here are three options for the educational process, which, according to experts, are very suitable for gifted children.
Program options
- Accelerated learning process. It is developed according to the principle "The faster the teacher presents the student with the material, the faster the gifted child can understand it." But such a learning process can be dangerous because the children completely stop making choices and forget how to fantasize, as well as think creatively.
- The second individual plan for working with gifted children involves motivation for a deeper study of the larger radius of the material.
- A completely new program for working with gifted children, the plan of which has other materials, which does not at all overlap with what is taught to children with ordinary abilities.
Already today we are seeing big changes in education. The guys who went to first grade are delayed at school for five or six lessons, as some classes and circles are introduced as compulsory subjects for a first grader.
What else can help?
Research activities and an individual plan for working with a gifted child can help in every way to develop the thinking of a little genius. The lesson “The World around”, of course, aims to help the child transform into a real researcher and learn something new, interesting. In addition, you can ask the child to make any presentations on the computer on the topics “My Family”, “My School”, “From September 1 to ...”, “How I Spent the Summer” and much more. Also, in order to identify real leaders among individuals, schools, lyceums and gymnasiums use an individual plan for working with a gifted child, which includes olympiads and competitions of this type, the winners of which go to the competition among city schools with other peers. In addition, there are Olympiads that you can perform online or send the results of your work by e-mail.
The task of the teacher
When explaining various new material, the teacher must put the child in a situation of “mental stupor” so that the student himself can overcome it, identify the problem, comprehend what is happening and, using one of the mental operations (comparison, generalization, analysis ...), solve the problem that was before set by him.
The main thing that gives an individual plan for working with a gifted child is a motivation to independently acquire knowledge and skills and encouragement for this.
After talent, of course, genius follows. How much of history we know of brilliant people who not only invented, created something new for society, but left behind an entire era!
Individual programs
An individual plan of work with gifted children should meet the needs of both one person and the group of children as a whole:
- Mandatory fulfillment of both long-term and short-term goals of the program.
- Continuous participation and improvement of the program by all teachers.
- Further training of all teachers will help to more effectively apply the plan of work with gifted primary school children.
- You should not spare money on the advanced training of teachers, salaries of specialists in their field, new materials, literature and teaching aids necessary for the implementation of the program.
- No need to limit yourself to any one type of teaching. These should be various techniques that develop the creative thinking of the child.
A teacher who takes responsibility in working with gifted children should be very careful to notice all the details in changing and progressing the child’s learning activities. He must maintain friendly relations with parents or their substitutes in order to have common ground with the child, not only at school. The teacher should be a kind and sensitive mentor who will always push in the right direction.
Necessarily knowledge of the psychology of both gifted children and children in general, willingness and sincere desire to work with children who have some kind of giftedness. The teacher needs to become more flexible so that in which case the program-organization of work with gifted children can be tailored to a specific child, depending on his individual needs and data. The teacher should always be ready to offer help as well as seek help. There is nothing wrong with the fact that the teacher will not only tell the children something new, but also learn something from them.
The most important thing
Gifted children can have many inclinations, but the main thing is high intellectual thinking and the development of imagination to create something special and creative. Therefore, it is worth paying attention to teachers at work. But we must also not forget that you are educating a comprehensively developed personality, so you need to pay attention to all the spectrum of training.
Each child has some kind of innate talent. Our task is to consider this talent. Brilliant people are the main treasure of every society. Do not forget that children absorb everything like sponges, so it is also important what example the younger generation gives the more experienced. Educational institutions, institutions of additional education and, of course, parental function - this is all that will help the little man to acquire new knowledge and skills, to become someone big in this vast world.