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translations. Teaching Critical Thinking Skills to Fourth Grade
Students Identified as Gifted and Talented by Debra Connerly
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment For Masters of Education in
Collaborative Teaching and Learning Cedar Rapids, Iowa In this
action research study, gifted elementary students benefited from
the involvement in critical thinking activities. The gifted
education community has frequently discussed the development of
our learners’ thinking skills. As an educator of elementary
gifted students, I have often been frustrated with the lack of
depth I find in my students’ thinking, as well as the lack of
challenge they experience in their regular classrooms. My goal
for this action research study was to move a group of fourth
grade students identified as gifted and talented from being
naïve and self absorbed about their thinking to taking ownership
of their thoughts. The primar