High ability students: detection and educational response

Gifted and talented students present a number of features associated to their personal capabilities, their creativity, imagination, their interests and motivations, their learning rhythm and their responsibility with their duties. Because of that, we have to offer them an educational response which adapts to their needs, so they can have a proper development suited to their characteristics. Through this article I pretend to show how is the detection process of these students and the educational strategies we can use with them. With this purpose, I am going to introduce the theme with a theoretical framework about the gifted and talented students. After that, I will describe the whole detection process of these students, starting with the way you observe how the student is showing some indicators of high capabilities until you set an educational answer for him or her. Finally, I will describe the principal educational strategies used at school.