Selma Wassermann: 4 books
Teaching for Thinking Today
Strategies, and Activities for the K-8 Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
These are turbulent times. We live in a climate of vigorous testing and memorization, so how can we both engage and challenge our children to learn and become thinking citizens in our society? In her invaluable new book, Selma Wassermann takes a step forward from Louis Rath’s seminal work and...
The Art of Interactive Teaching
Listening, Responding, Questioning
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
In this book, Selma Wassermann, international expert on classroom interactions, sets the stage for the relevance of the interactive teaching method, provides data and classroom examples that support its effectiveness at all student learning levels and in different subject areas, and offers detailed...
Teaching in the Age of Disinformation
Don’t Confuse Me with the Data, My Mind Is Made Up!
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Teaching in the Age of Disinformation makes a case for the importance of developing students’ intelligent habits of mind so that they become more discriminating consumers of the information that comes at them from the Internet, social media, television and the tabloid press in this “alternate...
What’s the Right Thing to Do?
Promoting Thoughtful and Socially Responsible Behavior in the Early Childhood Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019
Making choices is one of the more pervasive acts of life. Almost every action we take demands that choices be made. Knowing how to choose wisely, to choose after reflection, to be aware of what motivates that choice, to see the consequences of that choice on others enables us to live healthier, more...