The room was buzzing on November 10 as Dr. Diane Halpern presented an interactive session "Teaching and Assessing Critical Thinking: Helping College Students Become Better Thinkers." Halpern delivered a powerful session based on her career-long research on critical thinking. Her thesis for the session was "the best education for life in the 21st century must be built on the twin pillars of learning how to learn and how to think critically about the vast array of information that confronts us." Nancy Adams (educational leadership) said that she plans to use probing question strategies in her classroom to enhance her student's learning. Weihang Zhu (industrial engineering) plans to design some instruction methods to encourage critical thinking. Martha Rinker (psychology) plans to use the worksheet approach that Halpern described during the session. Randy Yoder (biology) appreciated the various approaches demonstrated by Halpern on how critical thinking skills can be taught. The discussion continues today at 3:00 PM in 622 MJGL. Halpern Sessions Revisited will be an opportunity for those who attended the session and those who were not able, to come together, share notes, and discuss teaching strategies designed to improve critical thinking in all LU students. CT+LE will provide handouts from the Halpern sessions.