Identificação e encaminhamento de alunos com indicadores de altas habilidades/superdotação na escola pública do Município de Fortaleza: proposta para a atuação de professores do Atendimento Educacional Especialializado

Abstract

In Brazil, the lack of academic production, allied to the presence of ancient myths and prejudices have made significant obstacles for educational assistance to the students with high abilities/gifted, that, along with students with disabilities and pervasive developmental disorders, are the target audience of Special Education. Despite the legal guarantees for the specialized complementary educational service to these students, official statistics derived from school censuses show that there is a small number of students with these characteristics effectively registered. However, the specialized literature warns about the need of adequate stimulation to develop their talents, skills and competences. The heterogeneity of this group was set up in discussions about the definition of this phenomenon, that must be understood in a multidimensional way. The identification of these students requires, therefore, competence and commitment of the involved ones, in order to avoid misunderstandings in this process. Therefore, the use of techniques of direct observation, understood as a type of educational diagnostic evaluation, has been effective as long as the professionals involved have specific training. This study was developed with the goal of creating a proposal of performance to the teachers of the specialized complementary educational service for the identification and referral of students with indicators of high abilities/giftedness. Aimed specifically: proposing educational strategies for the identification of students with characteristics of high abilities or giftedness appropriate to the performance of the teachers of the specialized complementary educational service; comparing the conceptions of the participants of the training course of NAAH/S - Ceará about the students with high abilities/gifted as well as the alternative proposal of in-service continuing education; comparing indicators of high abilities/giftedness marked by the teachers in the two instruments used. In this investigation, it has been adopted the quantitative and qualitative approach, set in the methodological guidelines of the collaborative action research; thus, varied proceedings were used. The sample was initially composed by 865 students and 87 education professionals. From these 19 teachers signaled 64 students that showed indicators of high abilities/giftedness, according to the criteria of the instruments used. The survey results showed the effectiveness of the proposal of in-service continuing education, resulting in consistency with the indications of students by the teachers in the two instruments employed, confirming the adequacy of these pedagogical strategies for the performance of the teacher of specialized complementary educational service.