This course is an introduction to the key concepts and issues surrounding gifted education. Through a mixture of online lectures, self-directed activities, discussion forums and self-directed reading, you will gain information and skills relating to the: (a) definitions, conceptions, and models of giftedness, including those commonly used in Australian schools, (b) the cognitive and affective characteristics of gifted students (and their differences to the cognitive and affective characteristics of non-gifted students), (c) the major principles and instruments used in the identification of gifted students , (d) diverse groups of gifted students, including twice exceptional students and exceptionally gifted students, and (e) creativity.