Gifted Methodology
Romanian Gifted School emphasizes the so-called window of opportunity in education: a very short period of formation of cognitive, social, affective and aesthetic skills which occurs at a child’s youngest age (up to 12 years). World research indicates that early education is of fundamental importance in the formation of intelligence, creativity, skills and abilities; showing that the evolution of man as a whole depends on the quality of education at an early age: at the age of 3, every child is gifted, all the buds of the development of his potential are activated: he is creative, he is attentive, eager to learn, he has a sense of justice, he has humor, he is able to focus, he is capable of sustained effort, and most importantly, he is motivated. The same research shows that at 10 years of age, intelligence and creativity are already formed in a proportion of 95-98%, and after this age, children/adolescents enter the stage of emancipation, when they still need guidance for the formation of real values.
The specificity of children with high abilities – with asynchrony and double exceptionality – does not consist in physical deficiency, or in reduced capacity to manage emotions, to integrate into the social environment, in vulnerability, but in the mechanisms of accessing information in an appropriate, individualized way. They need an education in the spirit of creativity as a stimulus for socio-emotional relationships, in accessing resources and their information circuit, in shaping personal and social values validated by the high-quality work environment, with an openness to entrepreneurship and volunteering, in close connection with pedagogies and non-formal working methods that stimulate thinking, creativity, analysis from as many perspectives as possible and involvement in the community.
