This teaching life : how I taught myself to teach / Selma Wassermann ; foreword by Larry Cuban.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wassermann, Selma.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wassermann, Selma.

Teachers--United States--Biography.

Teachers.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 176 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Teachers College Press, [2004]

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.

Contents:

Leaving

Growing professionals

Bridging the gap between perceptions and actions

Putting new ideas into practice

Finding ways to attend to individual learning needs

Creating a rich, engaging, and interactive learning environment

Using evaluation to promote learning

Prizing and caring about each individual

Unifying the group-a work in progress

Building habits of thinking

Learning to reflect on practice

Providing evaluative feedback that is enabling

"4 imprtint things for noo teechrs to 'member."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-167) and index.

ISBN:

0807745014

0807745006

OCLC:

55044449