The development of emotional responsiveness of intellectually gifted adolescents
A. G. Ryapisova, E. V. Demina
Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Vilyuiskaya str., 28, Novosibirsk, 630126, Russia
Keywords: innovative regional project, psychological and pedagogical support of gifted children, communicative competence, emotional sphere of the person, emotional sympathy, empathy, interactive methods
Abstract
The article considers a system of seminars dedicated to the organization of psychological-pedagogical support of the students of specialized classes of mathematical and natural-science orientation, involved in the innovative regional project. The aim of this publication is to present the methodological foundations of the development of the emotional-volitional sphere of intellectually gifted adolescents and to generalize the experience of the organization of psychological-pedagogical support of the educational process of the most talented students. The content of this article will allow teachers-psychologists, working with gifted students to identify, to understand and to adapt the proposed system to improve their own activities and to increase its efficiency. The main idea of the article consists in substantiation of expediency and opportunity of application of the interactive methods of teachers-psychologists' work for the development of emotional responsiveness of the gifted students. The innovative regional project «The system of specialized mathematical and natural science classes for the most talented students of Novosibirsk region» has been implemented since 2009 as a component of a complex of measures of the regional education system modernization. The purpose of the creation of specialized classes is the providing the conditions helping to identify and support the most gifted children, the implementation of a new program content and its methodological support, new quality and new results of the general education that reflects the future needs in the labor market and technology. This project provides the psycho-pedagogical support of the educational process with the purpose of creation the psycho-pedagogical conditions for the full development and personal development of the gifted child. In order to improve the professional competence of supervising specialists (teachers-psychologists, curators), there is implemented a system of training seminars and master classes. This form of organization of the professional interaction and mutual enrichment of professional experience has proven to be effective in the aspect of developing the ways to overcome the specific psychological problems inherent in the gifted adolescents - the pupils of specialized classes. The results of psycho-diagnostic examination have convincingly shown that one of the most urgent is the problem of development of affective-emotional sphere of the personality of intellectually gifted adolescents, including the deficit of development of emotional responsiveness as a meaningful emotional experience that creates barriers in communication with peers and adults, creates difficulties in the formation of communicative competence and socio-psychological adaptation in general. The definition of the conceptual apparatus in the aspect of the research problem is based on the classical and modern scientific-theoretical works of Russian scientists. To solve the tasks of development of adolescents’ empathy, there is substantiated the expediency of application of interactive methods of work of the teacher-psychologist with senior pupils of specialized classes. There is described a system of educational and extra-curricular group communications, including case studies, discussion, playing techniques, training, the technique of group projects; there are revealed the potentialities of development of emotional responsiveness by means of art.
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