Strategies of work with teachers with potentially gifted students for mathematics: Experiences of the USA, Russia, Japan, China, Romania and Serbia

This research is on the strategies of work with potentially gifted students for mathematics in several countries, and the choice is justified by the cultural differences and achievements of the students at international tests. Strategies of work in the USA, Russia, Japan, China, Romania and Serbia are discussed. The aim of the paper refers to presenting strategies of work with potentially gifted students for Mathematics in the stated countries and determining attitudes of teachers in Serbia about the ways of work with potentially gifted students for mathematics in regular classes. In the research, we have used a descriptive method, and the teachers were questioned with the questionnaire. The results of the research have shown that teachers, who have passed a certain form of training for work with potentially gifted children, fulfill their needs with application of different teaching forms and methods and enriched additional material, which they prepare themselves or they use the ready made ones in their work. Most of the teachers are motivated to attend the seminars, which can offer additional knowledge about work with this group of students, but money issues and lack of time deprive them of doing so. Nevertheless, the research has show that there is insufficient cooperation of teachers and special institutions for work with potentially gifted children, particularly in exchange experience and information between teachers themselves, so we opened these questions for further research.