Opening Minds: A Parents’ Guide to Teaching for Thinking at Home

Opening Minds is a wonderful resource full of materials for parents of elementary and middle school children who want to expand their learning at home. Though not a replacement for the standard curriculum of the grades, it provides parents with a variety of tools to promote and engage children’s thinking outside the classroom.

Selma Wassermann is professor emerita in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University and holder of the University Award for Teaching Excellence. She is the author of many books, including The Play’s the Thing: Promoting Intellectual and Emotional Development in the Early Childhood Years, Teaching Social Issues in the Middle Grades: A Teacher’s Guide to Using Case Studies to Promote Intelligent Inquiry, and Teaching in the Age of Disinformation: Don’t Confuse Me with the Data, My Mind is Made Up!