This Teaching Life: How I Taught Myself to Teach - Softcover

Selma Wassermann is Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. She is a coauthor of The New Teaching Elementary Science: Who’s Afraid of Spiders? and the author of Introduction to Case Method Teaching: A Guide to the Galaxy and Serious Players in the Primary Classroom..

“It is the finely tuned reflection on children as whole human beings in classrooms, her strengths and limitations as teacher, and her stubborn effort to keep getting better that makes this a remarkable tale.”
―From the Foreword by Larry Cuban

"I like the way this book works in so many best practices with the author’s personal story. This is what makes it so valuable for both beginning and veteran teachers. I urge school districts to get a copy for every new teacher."
― Bill Cliett, former Deputy Superintendent for Curriculum and Instructional Services, Gainesville, FL

“This small masterpiece will change the way teachers see and live their craft, how they experience and might re-imagine their teaching lives. It is essential reading for people taking their first tentative steps toward teaching, as well as for those who have spent a lifetime on this complex and twisty path, and for most everyone in between.”
William Ayers, Distinguished Professor, College of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago

“Wasserman’s compelling narrative of her life and growth as a teacher takes us from a rote ‘teaching by telling’ stance to learning about how to integrate knowledge about self, students, and learning. Novice and experienced teachers can use this book as a primer, keeping it closely by their side as they struggle with their own learning over time.”
Ann Lieberman, Senior Scholar, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching