ABSTRACT

As a 2nd-year teacher, I sat in the media center ready for an afternoon staff development seminar. An outside consultant was coming in to teach us “Talents,” a critical thinking curriculum. From what I can recall 15 years later, there were five “talents” that we were to teach our students. Although I cannot remember them exactly, I know that one dealt with planning, another with brainstorming, and one involved predicting problems; the two remaining were similar in fashion regarding the depth of thought involved. What I do remember quite clearly, however, was the “teacher talk” that the consultant drilled into our heads that day.