INSTITUTIONAL CARE FOR INTELLECTUALLY GIFTED CHILDREN IN SLOVAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS WITH A FOCUS ON MUSICAL ACTIVITIES

The contribution deals with the equal opportunity of education that shall be provided to the fullest potential of all children, including intellectually gifted children in Slovak ele-mentary schools. The authoresses believe that it is important to raise the potency of these children by focusing on their creative self-fulfilment and creating motivational conditions in educational process. They focus on musical activities as a tool that can encourage the development of intellectually gifted children by inducing pupils to express themselves in a creative way using musical activities in the main school subjects mathematics and Eng-lish language, with non-musical educational goals. Authoresses conclude their contribution by two examples of this possible pedagogical intervention.