What Should Be Taught? How Should Be Taught? And How Learning Should Be Evaluated?: A Study of Stakeholder Ideas about Education of Gifted Students in Turkey
Abstract
Parents and teachers of gifted students suggest different ideas for skills, subjects, teaching ways and evaluation of learning. These suggestions affect evaluations of current teaching and teaching outcomes in gifted education. Hence the purpose of this research is to determine suggestions of gifted students’ parents and teachers about content, teaching ways and evaluation of learning. 350 parents and 157 Science and Art (BİLSEM) teacher participated in this research. In the research as a data collection tool the four diffferent surveys involving “which skills should be taught to gifted students in addition to skills learned in school?”, “which subjects should be taught to gifted students in addition to subjects learned in school?”, “which ways of teaching should be used in gifted education?” and “which ways of evaluation should be used in gifted education?”. In the surveys there are one question and 40 blank fields for writing suggestions. The most important suggestion should be written to first blank field and the others should be put in the following fields. The results of the research.showed that the participants gave 85 suggestions for skills while they suggested 133 subjects. Moreover they provided 50 different suggestions about teaching ways and 27 suggestions for evaluation.
Keywords
Gifted Students,Intelligence,Stakeholder Opinion,Science and Art Centre
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