This Teaching Life

by Wassermann, Selma; Cuban, Larry

• ISBN13: 9780807745014
• ISBN10: 0807745014
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-15
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

This important memoir of professional development in action follows bestselling author Selma Wassermann from her dismal beginnings, struggling for control over her students, to enjoying the kind of teaching in which teacher and students are truly partners in the process.This is the story of learning to respect students, to allow them choices, to engage them in their own self-discoveries, to relinquish control, to make informed diagnoses of individual learning needs and create teaching strategies to address them, and, ultimately, to stand up for what one believes is right and good in the education of children.

Author Biography

Selma Wassermann is Professor Emerita in the Faculty of education at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Larry Cuban
Preface	xiii
Leaving	1	(9)
Growing Professionals	10	(7)
Bridging the Gap Between Perceptions and Actions	17	(10)
Putting New Ideas into Practice	27	(9)
Finding Ways to Attend to Individual Learning Needs	36	(13)
Creating a Rich, Engaging, and Interactive Learning Environment	49	(19)
Using Evaluation to Promote Learning	68	(11)
Prizing and Caring About Each Individual	79	(17)
Unifying the Group---A Work in Progress	96	(12)
Building Habits of Thinking	108	(16)
Learning to Reflect on Practice	124	(21)
Providing Evaluative Feedback That Is Enabling	145	(14)
``4 Imprtint Things for Noo Teechrs to `Member''	159	(6)
References	165	(4)
Index	169	(7)
About the Author	176