PROBLEMS OF DIAGNOSING THE CREATIVE ABILITIES OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN
The relevance of the problem under study is due to the tasks facing the system of preschool education for the early identification and disclosure of the potential of the child. The article discusses the concept of children's giftedness and the specificity of the manifestation of creative abilities in preschool children. The characteristic indicators of the creative abilities of preschoolers are presented, such as courage, variability, flexibility of thinking, the ability to transfer knowledge and experience to a new situation. Revealing the level of development of the creative abilities of a preschooler using the methods of psychological and pedagogical diagnostics helps the teacher to build further work on the development of all indicators of creativity in the child. The article outlines the problems that a teacher may face in the process of identifying and studying the giftedness and creative abilities of preschool children, and the possibilities of overcoming them.