Teacher training in cooperative learning and gifted students: an inclusive approach

Abstract

The improvement of the attention of gifted students from an inclusive perspective that envisages an adjusted response to the specific characteristics appears as a clear need in schools. Cooperative learning is presented as an adequate methodological strategy to provide quality attention to these students in an inclusive context. A resource to realize this response in classrooms which needs to be enhanced is teacher training. It is in this context where a research team implements a teacher training program in the field of gifted students and cooperative learning. The aim of this article is to show the development of this program that has been carried out as part of the Research Project of Excellence R & D titled "The Impact of Cooperative Learning in the inclusion of gifted students in the Community of Madrid".