Alunos com altas habilidades/superdotação no IFPI – Campus Teresina Central: os desafios dos professores em sua identificação

Abstract

This work aims to point out the challenges of the teachers of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Piauí - Campus Teresina Central - to identify the students with characteristics of high abilities/giftedness and propose mechanisms that assist in this very ample process of identification, host and development of this group of students with special educational needs. The survey was conducted through a questionnaire with qualitative character. The results attest a superficial idea of teachers in relation to the thematic, mainly a precipitate and erroneous knowledge on basic aspects that characterize them. It is evident the need for a collective work of the institution in order for these students are truly observed and supported through a system focused on special education, making them included it in order to enable them to reach their maximum personal development, cognitive, social and psychomotor.