Considerable literature exists about teacher
qualities that promoted talent development in general
education and specialized settings. Talented teachers
are the most important means of reaching gifted
students (Feldhusen, Van Tassel-Baska, & Seeley,
1989; Renzulli, 1987). What do these teachers know,
do, and believe to bring out the best in students of
talent?
A surprising gap revealed little research and vague
standards of the knowledge, skills, and dispositions
(attitudes) of a gifted and talented teacher. The
naturalistic inquiry study named, categorized, and
studied, key qualities using...