Teaching for Thinking Today
Strategies, and Activities for the K-8 Classroom
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 Raths鈥檚 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 鈥渂ig ideas鈥� across virtually all curriculum areas and apply this knowledge to problem solving. for more details.