The self-efficacy of candidates for the teaching profession towards work with a gifted student

Abstract

The article presents the results of research related to students’ self-efficacy in relation to their future work with a gifted student. In the theoretical part, important concepts were analyzed and different approaches to the problem of giftedness were presented. In the methodological part, reader was introduced to the research strategy. The method of the diagnostic survey was described, as well as the survey technique used. The empirical part is a quantitative and qualitative data analysis that allowed to find answers to the research questions. It turns out that students assessed their own self-efficacy on average level. They are unfamiliar with a constructivist approach to education that could facilitate and make work with a gifted student easier and more attractive. Some hope is given by the fact that the respondents indicated broadly understood lifelong learning as a way to solve problems in this area.

Keywords

• self-efficacy
• teacher
• gifted student
• giftedness
• academic education