ABSTRACT
The fundamental premise of gifted education is concerned with students: their characteristics, their strengths and talents, and their needs for instructional services that are stimulating and satisfying. Successful programming for talent recognition and development demands that the people establish and maintain such a vision. The foundations of the LoS approach are multidimensional and draw from a variety of disciplines and domains of theory, research, and practice. Major theorists and researchers in intelligence and human behavior have stimulated today's practitioners to expand significantly their understanding or definition of giftedness. The LoS approach also builds on an understanding of personal characteristics and affective factors and their contribution to the development and effective expression and applications of students' talents. Environment or the context in which learning occurs is also an important factor in talent development.
