Uma análise dos mitos que envolvem os alunos com altas habilidades: a realidade de uma escola de Santa Maria/RS

Abstract

In Brazil, there are few rescarches about the thematic of discharges abilities causing larger discussions in the Education Field, particulary, in the Special Education Field. Consequentey, some myths or erroneous ideas pass along the academic trajectory of high ability students. This happens due to the lack of knowledge, partly from some teachers, about ways of identifying and stimulating the talents of these students. This article presents results of a reserarch proposed to investigate if the myths that involve students shwing high abilities prevails in the conceptions of elementary school teachers from a public school of Santa Maria/RS. Ten teachers from afternoon shift, which tangl from 1st to 4th grades, participated in this reserach.The defined instrument to the data collecting was the semi-structured interview that was applied individually in a reserved environment. A tape recorder was used to record the data upon previous authorization of the interviewed teachers. The content analysis was used as a way of “reading” the participants talking. The final considerations point out the importance of awareness from teachers that work in a regular classroom, know how to identify and to direct these students to a specialized service. When they a student with giftedness characteristics.