The motivation for choosing this theme is centered on the concrete applicative size, at the level of the elaboration of a coherent counseling program, aimed at training educational counselors from a scientist-practitioner type of perspective, which is adequate for the necessities and the psychological profile adapted to the real clients’ needs, those of children with high aptitudes in Romania, who represent an informational vacuum in the Romanian educational system in what concerns the applicative dimension of the counseling services involved in promoting excellence; it is necessary to raise awareness in what concerns the fact that the best way of understanding counseling in this area involves the integration of the paradigms concerning the counseling of talents in a more eclectic way. The purpose of the research is that of identifying the qualitative and quantitative aspects involved in the continuous training of counseling teachers working in centers and offices of pedagogical support in order to provide appropriate psycho-pedagogical counseling services for gifted children, approach which is presented as necessary to optimize the psycho-individual potential of each gifted child. During the investigation there have been used qualitative and quantitative research methods: the survey based on the semi-structured type of interview as well as the questionnaire-based survey. The results target: a radiography of the level of training in the case of school counselors in the Romanian schools, in order to conduct specific activities for promoting excellence, for creating a space suitable for the adequate development of specific skills in the case of each gifted child, stimulating the parents’ interest in becoming more knowledgeable in what concerns their children' s psycho-pedagogical features and much more effectively involved in the education of gifted children. The research findings have been obtained through a diagnostic study, which indicates in a comprehensive and exhaustive manner the issues that circumscribe the psycho-pedagogical counseling activities designed to promote pedagogical excellence in Romania, being considered the size of continuous training of teachers in relation to quality results in advising and promoting excellence.

teacher, training, excellence, gifted, skills