Current Issues in Some Disciplines, ISBN 978-80-89691-01-2 87 Gifted Children – The Intellectual Potential of the Country © Inna CHERVINSKA & © Tetyana BLYZNYUK Precarpathian National University of V. Stefanyk, Ivano- Frankivsk, Ukraine ichervinska@mail.ru & blyztan@yahoo.com The article describes the psychological and pedagogical conditions of gifted personality of a junior pupil in the educational environment of contemporary schools. The author analyzes the key factors that influence the development of gifted individuals. The problem of education and development of a healthy and harmoniously developed personality has always been urgent. The basic approach in the search for young talents should recognize complex actions: medical, physiological, psychological, educational which are directed to be performed by the family and school. It is also important to use a variety of methods to identify the interests and abilities of children and continue to monitor their further progress. Scientists from different countries work at the problem of giftedness. Biologists try to identify genes of a genius, psychologists and sociologists invent thousands of tests to determine the brightest individuals. And yet the secret answer to the question why one person can manage much and the other is an outsider still remains a mystery. Identification, support, development and socialization of gifted children are among the priority tasks of the modern school. The problem of giftedness in the education system is solved by the establishment of special schools for gifted and talented children, or opening special classes for gifted students. However, there is another solution to this problem – not to isolate a gifted child from its natural environment, to teach and educate without taking it away from the peers, creating conditions for the development and implementation of all creative abilities. In psychological and educational literature, the problem of a gifted person is stressed in the writings of such scholars as I. Averina, A. Asmolova, V. Chudnovsky, B. Shadrikov, etc. A considerable amount of research is devoted to the phenomenon of a personal talent. Its nature and kinds, age characteristics are represented in the works of foreign scholars (J. Guilford, R. Cattell, J. Renzulli, B. Taylor, J. Freeman, etc.). The problem of child’s talent is one of the significant problems of modern science. There are over 100 definitions of the notion “talent.” N. Leytes said: “Talent is the ability to outstanding achievements in any socially important sphere of human activity.” The concepts of “talent”, “child endowment,” “gifted children”, “creative person” define ambiguous approaches to the educational activities of the educational institution. On the one hand, every child is “gifted” and the main task of teachers is to disclose intellectual and creative potential of every child. On the other hand, there is a category of children who are qualitatively different from their peers, which usually require the organization of special training, development and education. A talented, gifted student is a person with a high level of ability. Such children usually do not