Abstract
The subjects with Special Educational Needs are those children, youth
and adults that due to their intellectual, sensory and physical characteristics
present interferences in the learning; In that sense, in Venezuela, the special
education modality to guarantee a certain homogeneity has created seven
areas of attention: Visual Impairments, Auditory Deficiencies, Mental
Retardation, Autism, Physical Impairments, Learning Difficulties and Superior
Talent. Regarding the latter, children and young people with superior talent or
high intellectual abilities require specialized plans and programs to provide
educational attention according to their conditions. The problematic context is
the existing vacuum in the educational attention of this type of infants, so it is
important to inquire about the knowledge that teachers have of the initial
education level about this condition. The relevant factor is that children with
high intellectual capacities or with talent do not present homogeneous
characteristics or needs, but instead, they are as different from each other as
the rest of their classmates; their educational requirements are different.
Hence, the purpose of this article is to determine the training needs of the initial
education teacher on the high intellectual capacities. Regarding the research
modality, it is descriptive, with a non-experimental field design, using a
questionnaire in odd alternative scales, validated through expert judgment and
reliability with the Cronbach's Alpha coefficient. Among the findings, 55.56%
state that they do not handle the information on the subject, as well as 61.11%
reveal that they do not know the method to diagnose and in terms of teaching
strategies for educational attention 83.33% of respondents report that they do
not know them. It is recommended to establish educational conditions
favorable to stimulation, creating elements of intervention and not just
identification.
Keywords: teacher qualifications; talent; special education; early
childhood education.
Date Received: 04-05-2018
Date Acceptance: 25-06-2018
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Arbitrado
Training Needs of Initial Education Teachers on High Intellectual
Capacities