Gifted child in kindergarten – assessment pitfalls

Elżbieta  Kwiatkowska

doi:10.21697/fp.2020.1.21

Published: 2020-05-28

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2020)

Gifted child in kindergarten – assessment pitfalls

Elżbieta Kwiatkowska

Pedagogical Forum

Section: Colloquia

https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2020.1.21

Abstract

Issues and considerations raised in the article are related to the identification (assessment) of gifted children, often described in literature, in relation to selected theories of ability. It is very likely that a gifted child characterized by the specificity of early childhood, commonly defined as intelligent, with high cognitive abilities, will abandonits innate, unique potential, entangling in various types of “problems”, taking on the features of the syndrome of inadequate school achievements, etc. in the future, as a result of adverse environmental impacts, the coincidence of events. The individual case studies presented in the article are intended to illustrate the significance of individual impacts on a gifted child of preschool age, due to the specific developmental peculiarities of this period.

Keywords:

gifted child; talented child; kindergarten; pre-school teacher; diagnosis

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