The article presents generalizations on educational policies and practices regarding gifted learning. First of all, global problems of gifted learning are outlined. After that, attention is focused on the effectiveness of the educational process in the environment of gifted individuals. It is not possible to achieve efficiency without analyzing the basic principles of organizing the educational process in educational institutions for gifted individuals. As a result, an analysis is made of the students' perceived classroom activity regarding significance, challenge, choice and attractiveness. Before you begin to analyze the quality of training for individual subjects, the quality review toolkit is subjected to examination. Among a number of educational subjects, the quality of teaching mathematics and language art is assessed. On the basis of the above, the prospect of gifted learning is outlined, the final results of education and development of gifted high school students are grounded, and requirements for effective management of education are gifted at the level of the educational institution. The article states that a number of factors are reflected in the efficiency of gifted learning. First of all, this is the academic asynchrony of the gifted, their differences in focusing and distribution of attention. It turns out the source of individual differences in thinking by analogy. An analogy is observed in solving verbal and visual problems, which, along with other data, is in the plane of theoretical foundations of effective teaching and development of gifted, development of their talents. The factors of academic and creative achievements of gifted students are singled out. It is also noted that the loss of achievements during the transition of gifted students from junior to high school. One of the reasons for this phenomenon is the presence of subjectively false concepts during the study, say, natural sciences, associated with the specifics of intelligence and sexual differences. On that basis the educational practice is described which leads to the exclusiveness of gifted. The constituent elements of this practice are the task of learning to think and, in particular, think creatively and critically. This practice is specified by the commandments for the development of academic talent gifted. These commands are illustrated with examples of talent development to the study of natural sciences and technological creativity. It turns out that, even fine art finds itself a prominent place in this work, because it contributes to the development of students' attention. The article ends with the problem of intercultural transfer of positive practice of teaching gifted senior pupils and its individual elements.

Анотація. Автори статті узагальнюють проблеми здібностей, творчості та обдарованості учнів ЗЗСО, зосереджують увагу читачів на принципових відмінностях понять «здібності», «творчість» та «обдарованість». Говорячи про здібності. розкриваються елементи та етапи їх розвитку, а також автори акцентують увагу на класифікації. Описуючи поняття «творчість» автори нагадують про те, що для розвитку творчих здібностей та обдарованості необхідно створювати певні умови. Обдарованість також має свою класифікацію. Автори пропонують критерії оцінювання творчих здібностей учнів.