Abstract:

Gifted students have unique educational needs due to their superior cognitive skills. In other words, gifted students learn faster, deeper and consistent than their normally developing peers. Besides, creativity is one of the most important features of gifted students. Thus the properties of gifted students should be taken into account while planning their curriculum. Furthermore, due to rapid changes in science and technology, 21st century requires some new skills such as collaboration, communication, Information and Communication Technology literacy, and social and/or cultural competencies. In this context, educators should create learning environments that enable the gifted students to produce divergent thoughts and unusual solutions to global problems. This paper aims to discuss the change in educational sciences and how this change reflects to the learning process of gifted students to reach 21st century skills. The appropriate techniques used in gifted education in order to develop required new skills are reviewed.

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