The Degree of Teachers and Parents Meet The Special Counselling Needs of Gifted Students in the State of Kuwait

Omar Alaradah, Ibrahim El-Zraigat

Abstract


The current study aimed to assess the degree to which teachers and parents meet the special counseling needs of talented students in the State of Kuwait. The study included 50 parents and 50 teachers. To achieve the goal of the study, the researchers developed a scale of meeting the special needs, and it was presented in two versions, one for parents and the other for teachers. The validity and reliability have had been verified. The results of teachers indicated that meeting academic counseling needs ranked first, while meeting family needs ranked last. While the results indicated that the parents’ ranked family needs in the first place, and the psychological needs came in the last place. The study recommended the importance of raising awareness of meeting the special needs of gifted students.


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Degree of teachers and parents meet the special counseling needs; Gifted students; The State of Kuwait

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