Browsing by Subject "gifted education"

Purpose. The purpose of the dissertation is to gain an understanding from the teachers' perspective of how the gifted students in Finnish schools are treated. The dissertation examines what teachers' perceptions are about giftedness and gifted students, as well as what teachers think about the teaching of the gifted and what differentiation methods they use. As a theoretical frame of reference, three different theories of aptitude have been used. These are Gardner's multi-ple intelligence theory, Sternberg's threefold intelligence theory and Mönk's and Ypenburg's model for triadic interdependence. In addition to these, Dweck's the-ory of mindset is used. Special talent in the Finnish school is also discussed. Method. The study was conducted as a narrative literature study. Eight Finnish researches were included, all of which were original scientific articles. The re-search was both qualitative and quantitative. The material was retrieved from the databases Google scholar, Helka and Divaportal. Results and conclusions. The results of the study showed that the teachers were interested in the gifted and their teaching, but that knowledge of the subject was lacking. Most of the teachers used different differentiation methods in their teaching, but several of the methods were not evidence-based and ineffective. In addition to this, only some of the teachers described that they planned their teaching taking into account the needs of the gifted. The results indicate that about half of the teachers can offer effective ways to teach this group.