Abstract:

The percentage of highly and potentially talented children is likely to be around % 2-3 in the world. If highly talented individuals for a society are high and they are not educated in an appropriate way, this might be a problem for that society. This will be apparent if the lives of historic figures like Beethoven, Tolstoy, Walt Disney, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, Newton, Edison, and Werner Von Braun, who are high or special talents, were to be studied. Several models are prepared and implemented for the training of highly talented students. Some of these often mentioned in literature are; Renzulli’s Enrichment Triad Model, Feldhusen and Kollff’s Three-Stage Model, Treffinger‘s Self-Initiated Learning Model, Betts and Kercher’s Autonomus Learner Model. In this study, the models used in the training of highly talented individuals will be discussed. In this work, the differences and similarities between the four models mostly used in the education of gifted children are examined.

Keywords:

Gifted Children, Comparative Study Models, Talented student, İnsturctional Design.