Too often, preservice teachers passively learn all the right stuff of teaching, preached to them by professors in lecture mode, arming them with the knowledge of what good teachers do, but without understanding how to apply what they know. Dr. Wassermann makes the compelling case that, from the outset, teachers in training need to learn the way they want their students to learn, by observing, analysing and applying what they know, through activities that require them to test their knowledge, figure out what went wrong, and find their own solutions. Dr. Selma Wassermann is the quintessential master of teaching for thinking. A decade after I began my teaching career, I was fortunate enough to have been one of her students at Simon Fraser University and to have experienced, first hand, this transformative learning paradigm.
