Product Description: Long-Distance grandparenting means a lot of lost opportunites to experience the joy of each special new day, each new growth stage, each new accomplisment of our beloved grandchildren. These are only some of the prices we pay for the hard, and sometimes unendurable, fact of the miles that seperate us...read more

Product Description: 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 Rath s seminal work and gives us some truly helpful answers to this modern dilemma...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Provides suggestions for grandparents who live far from their grandchildren, with chapters on telephone, postal, photograph, and audiotape connections, communicating successfully, and dealing with gifts and visits. (view table of contents)

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Designed for teachers-to-be and practicing teachers of science, this work presents an inquiry-oriented method that capitalizes on children's natural curiosity by emphasizing scientific exploration. It uses a model that incorporates investigative play with criticial thinking skills...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 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".

Product Description: 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...read more

Introduces the skill of forming hypotheses and challenges the reader to practice and master it as a part of thinking critically and creatively.

Product Description: The authors make specific recommendations and practical suggestions on how to implement critical thinking through classroom applications at both the elementary and secondary levels.

Moonbeam the chimp doesn't display any interest in her upcoming trip to the moon and the scientists try to discover the reason.