The Means for Teachers and Parents to Identify the Abilities of Students at a Younger Age

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze how teachers and parents alike identify the abilities of students at a younger school age. Identifying a person’s potential is an important step to better understanding the individual, and guides educational and upbringing activities both in and out of school. Although abilities do not always reveal themselves right away, discovering them makes it possible to design the student’s further development path in line with the student’s known aptitudes, interests, and preferred learning style. Thus, in the cognitive activities of these students, the term “diagnosis”, which has so far been associated with the identification of difficulties, disorders, deficits, and educational barriers, takes on a different meaning.