This is about the importance of thinking capabilities and the ways they may be promoted in the curriculum. The original theoretical conceptualization of thinking as one of the primary aims of education offered by Louis Raths, the distinguished educator and theorist, is presented and supported with research carried out in classrooms ranging from the primary grades to the university. The authors make specific recommendations and practical suggestions on how to implement critical thinking through classroom applications at both the elementary and secondary levels.

Teaching for Thinking: Theory, Strategies, and Activities for the Classroom

Science & Math

Wassermann, Selma

Raths, Louis Edward

Jonas, Arthur

Rothstein, Arnold M.

Behavioral Sciences

Teachers College Pr

This second edition offers further insight into Selma Wassermann's notion of organizing instruction known as "Play-Debrief-Replay" - a means of structuring curriculum experiences to promote children's active learning in co-operative groups and to foster independent thinking. The book also provides a theoretical framework for implementing teaching for thinking in primary classrooms. By updating references and adding a chapter on moral dilemmas, including information that is consonant with constructivist ideologies, Wassermann continues to promote ways of teaching that stimulate children's appreciation for social and ethical issues. Here approach is holistic; it not only honours the play of children, but also the work of teachers.

Serious Players in the Primary Classroom: Empowering Children Through Active Learning Experiences (Early Childhood Education Series)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

From Wikipedia: Teachers College, Columbia University (sometimes referred to simply as Teachers College; also referred to as Teachers College of Columbia University or the Columbia University Graduate School of Education) is a graduate school of education located in New York City, New York, United States. It was founded in 1887 by the philanthropist Grace Hoadley Dodge and philosopher Nicholas Murray Butler to provide a new kind of schooling for the teachers of the poor children of New York City, one that combined a humanitarian concern to help others with a scientific approach to human development. While Teachers College holds its own corporate status, the college is also a Faculty and academic department of Columbia University. Teachers College faculty hold Columbia University appointments; its President is a Dean of the University; and all students receive their degrees by the University.[2][3] ~~~ Beginning as a school to prepare home economists and manual art teachers for the children of the poor, the college affiliated with Columbia University in 1898 as Columbia University's Graduate School of Education. Under the terms of its affiliation with Columbia University, the University awards all master's degrees, Ph.D., and Ed.D. degrees to graduates of the College. ~~~ According to U.S. News &amp; World Report's 2011 rankings, Teachers College, Columbia University currently ranks as the #4 education school in the nation. ~~~ The founders early recognized that professional teachers need reliable knowledge about the conditions under which children learn most effectively. As a result, the College's program from the start included such fundamental subjects as educational psychology and educational sociology. The founders also insisted that education must be combined with clear ideas about ethics and the nature of a good society; consequently programs were developed in the history of education and in comparative education.

Getting Down to Cases: Learning to Teach With Case Studies

Introduction to Case Method Teaching: A Guide to the Galaxy

Describes the theory and practice of case method teaching for teachers at all levels who are interested in this pedagogy. This book can be used as a companion text to Wassermann's "Getting Down to Cases: Learning to Teach With Case Studies".

Describes the theory and practice of case method teaching for teachers at all levels who are interested in this pedagogy. This book can be used as a companion text to Wassermann's "Getting Down to Cases: Learning to Teach With Case Studies".

The New Teaching Elementary Science: Who’s Afraid of Spiders―Second Edition, by Selma Wassermann and J.W. George Ivany is designed for teachers-to-be and practicing teachers who want to teach science with confidence and for those who are fearful of trying. It presents an inquiry-oriented method (instead of a smorgasbord of approaches) that capitalizes on children’s natural curiosity by emphasizing scientific exploration. The book removes the fear of teaching science by encouraging teachers to be scientific inquirers themselves, learning side-by-side with their students.
The text features a theoretical model of inquiry-based teaching―Play-Debrief-Replay―that incorporates elements of investigative play with critical thinking skills. In the longest chapter, 60 fully developed, field-tested investigative science activities are included to promote experiential learning and concept development. Anxieties about teaching science are addressed head-on and dealt with sensitively and thoughtfully.
Patricia Schmidt, an elementary school teacher in Terre Haute, Indiana, enthusiastically describes her use of the Play-Debrief-Replay model:
During debriefing I would often ask the question “What did you discover?” The responses were so thoughtful that I was overwhelmed. Students who chose not to perform with a textbook and workbook were now acting as if our classroom were their own private laboratory and they, as scientists, were in charge as they gathered information from observation, made predictions, and carried out investigations. Needless to say, sciencing has been a huge success in my classroom.
The New Teaching Elementary Science is a crucial resource for all elementary teachers, and is important reading for science educators and for courses in elementary science methods.

The New Teaching Elementary Science, Who's Afraid of Spiders

Ivany, JW George

Technology

Teachers' College Press

After 10 years of accolades for Serious Players in the Primary Classroom: Empowering Children Through Active Learning Experiences, Selma Wassermann provides readers with a second edition to her classic. Building on the original work, this new edition offers further insight into Wassermann’s notion of organizing for instruction known as “Play-Debrief-Replay”―a way of structuring curriculum experiences to promote children’s active learning in cooperative groups and to foster independent thinking. The book also provides a theoretical framework for implementing teaching for thinking in primary classrooms. By updating references and adding a new chapter on moral dilemmas, including information that is consonant with constructivist ideologies, Wassermann continues to promote ways of teaching that stimulate children's appreciation for social and ethical issues. Her approach is holistic; it not only honors the play of children, but also the work of teachers. Accessible and enlightening, this new edition is a must-read for all early childhood professionals. Parents, too, will find this volume useful.

Research

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.

This Teaching Life: How I Taught Myself to Teach

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

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.

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 Raths’s seminal work and gives us some truly helpful answers to this modern dilemma. Using new data from her extensive field work, Wassermann (a co-author of Teaching for Thinking) provides a wealth of innovative classroom strategies that will enable and empower students to grasp the “big ideas” across virtually all curriculum areas and apply this knowledge to problem solving. Using a teacher-friendly style, this practical book: <ul>
<li> Provides the theoretical framework, tools, and teaching strategies to implement teaching-for-thinking programs in K–8 classrooms. </li> <li> Offers applications for classroom implementation in key curriculum areas such as science, math, language arts, social studies, computer studies, art, and music.</li> <li> Demonstrates how the standard classroom curriculum can be “tweaked” to emphasize higher-order cognitive skills.</li>
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Teaching for Thinking Today: Strategies, and Activities for the K-8 Classroom

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Books by Wassermann, Selma

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Teaching for Thinking: Theory, Strategies, and Activities for the Classroom

Serious Players in the Primary Classroom: Empowering Children Through Active Learning Experiences (Early Childhood Education Series)

Getting Down to Cases: Learning to Teach With Case Studies

Introduction to Case Method Teaching: A Guide to the Galaxy

Introduction to Case Method Teaching: A Guide to the Galaxy

The New Teaching Elementary Science, Who's Afraid of Spiders

Serious Players in the Primary Classroom: Empowering Children Through Active Learning Experiences (Early Childhood Education Series)

This Teaching Life: How I Taught Myself to Teach

This Teaching Life: How I Taught Myself to Teach

Teaching for Thinking Today: Strategies, and Activities for the K-8 Classroom