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Developing a Critical Thinking Program for the Verbally Gifted

&nbsp;&nbsp;In information society, students need to take roles of prosumers who are not only producing but also consuming knowledge. To justify and validate their own ideas and to select appropriate information, they need to develop both critical thinking skill and critical thinking disposition. Critical thinking skill is mental ability that people use to make a right decision, and critical thinking disposition is affective characteristic, including such as inquisitive, objective, and open-minded attitudes. It is necessary for the verbally gifted to enhance their critical thinking because it is a higher-order mental function and a disposition to solve all kinds of problems. So we have to develop a critical thinking program for the verbally gifted students.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;In this study I developed a program which is consisted of three types of goals : Understanding, inquiry, and project. Finally, I provided several examples of plans and activities.