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The purpose of this study was to understand the development of the gifted education program in the rural areas and the learning process of the gifted students in creativity programs, to explore the implementation methods of the gifted education programs in the rural areas, the students' learning process in different topics, and the implementation difficulties. This study adopted a case study method. The principal, teachers, students, and parents of the elementary school in Miaoli County were used as research participants, and a semi-structured interview outline was used as a research tool to collect the entire curriculum in the gifted education program. The design and development of curriculum, the learning process of the students, and the reflections of the parents, teachers and students. Comprehensive analysis of the content of qualitative research data, the results of this study were summarized as follows: 1. The important concept for curriculum development of gifted education program must have innovative, forward-looking and diversified perspectives in curriculum design; multiple intelligences theory was used as a framework for curriculum planning and design of this rural gifted education programs. Local cultural courses and professional teacher arrangements allowed students to obtain the maximum learning benefits. 2. The school mainly focused on creative gifted education programs, and used the creative potential development and thematic enrichment curriculum mode as the main axis of curriculum design in the curriculum. It adopted group cooperative learning, independent study, and differentiated teaching. 3. During the learning process of gifted education programs, students gained a sense of identity with their hometown culture, participated in social service learning, and appreciated the importance of teamwork and communication expression. Gaining a successful experience brought self-confidence and a sense of accomplishment, and the positive support changed the negative and got rid of the feeling of inferiority, learned how to deal with things, and enlarged the vision of students in the process to gain rare precious life experience. 4. The gifted education curriculum strengthened students' superior abilities, the integration of information technology brought changes to the community, led new residents to integrate into the community and schools, and enhanced parent-child relationship. 5. Difficulties in the implementation of gifted education in rural areas: In terms of schools, there was no professional teachers to undertake gifted curriculum development and curriculum decisions, lacked of joint discussions, and limited funding for gifted education. In terms of parents, parents' vision were not long-term and children’s learning were restricted by parents and the community lacked of agreement. Based on the results of the study, some practical suggestions were provided for practitioners and researchers as a reference for the implementation of the rural gifted education program in the future. Keywords: gifted education in rural areas, creativity gifted education program
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