Visual Art Gifted Child in Pre-School and Early School Years

Visual arts media in pre-school and early school years and development of children’s drawing are well researched. However, when one considers that children are endowed with a talent for visual arts, the research is not as comprehensive and clear-cut. The signs of freedom of expression and imagination, intuitiveness and originality, an inclination to individual work, high sensitivity, and other indicators begin to show soon after visual art gifted (VAG) children enter the representative stages of visual arts. This article was based on a longitudinal case study that was carried out to show some aspects of the functioning of a VAG child in pre-school and early school years and to make some suggestions on how to consider the needs of VAG children.

INNOVATIVE TEACHING METHODS AS A MEANS OF DEVELOPMENT OF GIFTED PERSONALITY (BASED ON THE EXPERIENCE OF THE ACTIVITY OF THE “UNIVERSITY OF THE GIFTED CHILD” AT VASYL STEFANYK PRECARPATHIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY)

The purpose of the article is to analyze the activities of the “University of the Gifted Child” at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University on the development of gifted students through the prism of the use of innovative teaching methods. One of the key tasks of the RMC “University of the Gifted Child” is the development of academic, aesthetic, sports, practical, other types of giftedness of children and scientific and methodological support of this process; creating an appropriate methodological complex on child development, development of classes, didactic material; introduction of experimental and innovative activities, development of information models of education and development of the child, intellectual information environments for educational purposes, etc. Teachers and students build their work with children on the basis of coaching.