La formación de profesores de alumnos superdotados

Resumen

The focus of this research has been on the teacher of the gifted. The professional development of teachers is an important aspect in the development of appropiate behavior for teachers of the gifted. In order to support the growing importance of teacher training, we propose a competency model based on modules of increasing content and depth to be used in different training modalities. Thus, the suggested emphasis and content for the modules on each level are: a) definition, characteristics, and psychological aspects about giftedness; b) identification instruments, teaching strategies; and c) analysis of assessment protocols, curriculum development, models of evaluation. Finnally, we found from our research that the characteristics most often used to designate the succesful teacher of the gifted was facilitator of learning; not every teacher should teach gifted students; and also gifted children no neccessary need gifted teacher.