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The research aims to measure the effectiveness of professional development program based on the international standards of gifted teachers issued by the national association for gifted children (NAGC), and the council for exceptional children (ECC). The program included the standards in (6) units and graduate project. The program use pretest and posttest and the program units used included the following: (introduction to gifted and talented education, the growth of gifted and talented and the individual differences of learning, learning environments in gifted education, teaching for gifted and talented, assessment, professional learning and ethical practices, graduation project). The program also used some accompanying activities to motivate the elementary school mathematics teachers for developing their teaching performance and achieve the sustainable professional development. The results indicated the effectiveness of the proposed program to develop the teaching performance of elementary school mathematics teachers in gifted education. (Published abstract)