The aim of the present study is the exploration of teachers’ perceptions towards the gifted students’ characteristics in an effort to describe how teachers who have not trained on giftedness perceive the specific characteristics of the gifted students in class. A sample of 206 primary school teachers was employed, 163 females (81.91%) and 36 males, with a mean age of 42.2 years (SD=9.97 years) and a mean teaching experience of 17.4 years (SD=8.3 years). 18.45% of the sample has had a postgraduate diploma in special education or in various domains of pedagogy and psychology. The majority of them (70.4%) lived in Athens and 29.6% lived in other Greek cities and towns. The questionnaire created for the purpose of this study was based on some of the Renzulli’s (Renzulli et al., 2002) ‘Scales for Rating the Behavioral Characteristics of Superior Students’ (SRBCSS-R) of 43 items, in respect to “learning” (13 items), “creativity” (11 items), “leadership” (8 items) and “motivation” characteristics (11 items), along with some demographic questions. After a short introduction on giftedness presented for the teachers of the sample at each school separately, the teachers were asked to fill in the questionnaire anonymously, “keeping in their mind a student they believe he/she is gifted”. We computed the Cronbach α for each set of items, as following: α=.89 for learning items, α=.80 for creativity items, α=.78 for leadership items, and α=.85 for motivation. No statistical differences were found for the 4 sets of items in respect to teachers’ gender, age and teaching experience. Statistically significant differences were found in regard to place of residence for creativity (p<.05, η² = .03) and learning characteristics (p<.05, η² = .03), and also statistically significant interaction between gender and place of residence for learning characteristics (p<.05, η² = .064). The results are discussed in relation to specific legislative aspects of the Greek educational system and Greek teachers’ needs for training on giftedness along with the scientific activities of the Greek Association for the Promotion of Creative/Gifted/Talented Children and Adolescents.