Selma WassermannRethinking Teacher Education
A Bold Alternative to Pre-Service Programs
Selma Wassermann has long and extensive experience with teacher education programs and is a founding member of the innovative Professional Development Program at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of more than 20 books and articles about teacher education, including Mastering the Art of Teaching (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), This Teaching Life (Teachers College Press, 2004), and "Changing Course: Re-thinking Teacher Education Course Design" (Childhood Education, 2017).
Preface: The harpsichord theory of learning to teach
Acknowledgements
Introduction: What's wrong with teacher education?
Chapter 1: Where do we start?
Chapter 2: Connecting means with ends
Chapter 3: To Know, to understand, and to know how: a theoretical framework
Chapter 4: Some Radical Ideas
Part II: Developing Competence
Chapter 5: Introduction to Part II
Chapter 6: Developing Competence: Kids: Learning to observe, diagnose and
deal with individual behavior
Chapter 7: Developing Competence: Teacher-Student Interactions
Chapter 8: Developing Competence: The teacher as curriculum maker
Chapter 9: Developing Competence: Student teaching
Chapter 10: In retrospect
Appendix
Bibliography