Issues of identifying gifted children in Russia

The article presents the analysis of domestic and foreign experience of providing support to gifted children and identifies promising directions of work in this area. We used the following policy documents of the federal level as the information base: the target program “Gifted children”, the Concept for a national system of identifying and developing young talent etc., scientific publications of domestic researchers, information materials on the foreign experience, the results of legislative activity in Russia aimed to support and identify gifted children. The purpose of the paper is to analyze the problems of identification and support of gifted children in Russia. The analysis showed the low awareness of the importance of evidence-based programs in this field of work at the level of public authorities; lack of consistency in the use of technologies and methods of work with gifted children; lack of a unified system for advanced training and professional retraining of teachers to prepare them to work with gifted children...