Research of special abilities of future informatics teachers in the process of training to work with gifted children

The article substantiates the relevance of improving the training of future informatics teachers to work with gifted children in accordance with the needs of society in the context of new educational standards. The analysis of the works of domestic and foreign authors devoted to research in the area under consideration is presented. A brief description of a special module “Work of an informatics teacher with gifted children”, developed by one of the authors of the article, is presented and included in the work program of the discipline “Methods of teaching informatics”. The comparative results of the input and output questionnaires of students are given, which make it possible to identify the level of knowledge of the psychological characteristics of children with high educational needs among future teachers, as well as the levels of subject and methodological readiness to work with this category of pupils. The results of the study of the personal qualities of the participants in the pedagogical experiment, obtained using test diagnostic techniques, are described. In the process of experimental work, the effectiveness of the combination within the framework of one course of psychological, subject and methodological components of training of a future informatics teacher for educational activities with gifted pupils has been substantiated. The results of the study may be of interest to teachers and methodologists of institutions of higher and secondary education, courses of advanced training for teachers.