Improving the system of working with gifted children will be discussed by educators at a conference in Vitebsk

November 10, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA /. Issues of improving the system of working with gifted children will be discussed by participants of the interregional scientific and practical conference "Gifted Children: Identification, Education, Development," which will be held on November 11-12 in Vitebsk. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent at the regional institute for the development of education. More than 200 scientists, educators, and methodologists representing scientific and educational institutions from all regions of Belarus, as well as specialists from St. Petersburg State University of Railway Transport, have shown interest in the Vitebsk forum. The main goal of the event is to summarize and disseminate best pedagogical practices on current issues of working with gifted children, and to identify promising directions and forms of their social, pedagogical, and psychological support. During the conference, specialists will consider various aspects of giftedness as a pedagogical and psychological phenomenon, and the methodological foundations of educating and nurturing gifted children. The forum participants will be presented with issues of socio-psychological and moral development of young talents, organization of work with the family of a gifted child, and problems of professional and personal development of a teacher capable of effectively teaching and nurturing gifted children. The conference work is organized into several sections, where participants will discuss pedagogical methods and educational technologies for working with gifted children. A collection of materials is planned to be published following the conference. The Vitebsk Regional Institute for the Development of Education is the organizer of the interregional scientific and practical conference. -0-