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Fonds consists of records relating to Selma Wassermann's activities as an educator and scholar. Activities documented include SFU teaching and curriculum development; research and publication; development of classroom educational resources; professional development projects with teachers in the metro Vancouver area drawing on Wassermann's teaching for thinking methods and pedagogy; and correspondence with colleagues, including her mentor, Louis C. Raths. Records include course outlines, instructional materials, case studies, notes and working papers; correspondences and reports; speeches, conferences papers and proceedings, academic articles and books; teachers' guides and resources; interviews, photographs, classroom footage, sound recordings and video. The fonds includes copies of most of Wassermann's published articles, but only a small selection of her published books, including her first work, Teaching and Thinking (1966), as well as Spanish translations of Serious Players and Introduction to Case Method Teaching.

The fonds is arranged into six series:
- Teaching and course development files, 1972-2007 (F-263-1)
- Materials relating to case method teaching, 1978-2005 (F-263-2)
- Speeches, 1988-1999 (F-263-3)
- Publications and writings, 1973-2010 (F-263-4)
- Personal papers and correspondence, 1962-2000 (F-263-5)
- Audio-visual materials, [198-]-2006 (F-263-6)

Series consists of audio-visual materials relating to Selma Wassermann's teaching and research. Includes interviews with Wassermann and others (including Roland C. Christensen); classroom and raw footage; media and conference appearances; and a dialogue between Wassermann, John Ellis and Glenn Kirchner on the development of the Faculty of Education at SFU. Media types include VHS tapes and optical disks.

Series consists of case materials Wassermann and her collaborators prepared or collected in the course of a multi-year project to support teaching by the case method. Wassermann worked with a group of teachers from Centennial Secondary School in Coquitlam in the 1990s to incorporate Wassermann's teaching for thinking pedagogy into their practice. The case method presents problems drawn from the complexity of real events and requires pupils to learn how to reason from the data. The teacher's role is not to be a disseminator of information but an "extractor of meanings", using artful questioning strategies to help students understand the significant ideas in the curriculum. The group collected and wrote cases for use in the classroom, leading to the establishment of a case study library housed at SFU, the Case Clearinghouse and the publication of a collection, Cases for Teaching in the Secondary School (see file 11). Wassermann's collaborators on the project included Laura Bickerton, Rich Chambers, George Dart, Steve Fukui, Joe Gluska, Brenda McNeill, and Paul Odermatt. Records in the series include individual cases prepared or collected by Wassermann and colleagues; case catalogues from Harvard University, International Case Clearinghouse and Primus Education; correspondence relating to cases; and the published collection.

Series consists of records relating to Wassermann's SFU teaching activities. Wassermann retained files for a number of the SFU courses she developed that went beyond the traditional lecture format. These include:
- Education 240 Social Issues in Education.
- Education 290 Special Topics: Studies of Classroom Interactions
- Education 483 Curriculum Studies: Teaching for Thinking.
- Education 486 Critical Incidents in Teaching.
- Education 722 Teaching and the Case Method
- Education 819 Studies in Teacher Student Interactions.

The series also includes a file relating to the development of an Early Childhood Module in the Faculty of Education; and a report on The Vancouver Project: A Study of the Key Vocabulary Approach to Beginning Reading in an Organic Classroom Context (Harold McAllister, Kathy Simpkins, 1974). The Vancouver Project was a collaboration between Selma Wassermann, the New Zealand writer and education Sylvia Ashton-Warner (then visiting faculty at SFU), and 9-10 teachers to implement Ashton-Warner's ideas around organic teaching and key vocabulary in their classrooms.

Records include course outlines, reading lists and readings, cases, instructional handbooks, course tasks and activities, notes and working papers, and the Vancouver Project report.

Interview recorded September 17, 1991

Recorded by SFU's Instructional Media Centre, May 1998

Series consists of personal correspondence, appreciations from students and colleagues, and documentation relating to Wassermann's career at SFU. Correspondents include Professor Louis E. Raths, with whom Wassermann studied at New York City University, described by her as "my great teacher, mentor and friend"; Professor C. Roland Christensen, characterized by Wassermann as "the 'father' of case method teaching at Harvard Business School"; and E.G. Kallet, parent of a student Wassermann taught in her time as a public-school teacher in New York. Records include correspondence; reminiscences of Wassermann by Sylvia Ashton-Warner (with whom Wassermann worked in the early 1970s) and Jim Clark (a former student from her time at Newark State College); a copy of Wassermann's SFU Excellence in Teaching Award (1989); SFU publicity materials relating to Wassermann's work; and cards, drawings and well-wishes from students and colleagues.

Sub-series consists of teacher's guides and other instructional materials created by Wassermann, intended for use by educators and schools. Projects documented include Profiles of Teaching Competency (1973); Presumed Enemies: The Injustice of the Japanese Internment during WWII (1999); several packages and CDs for early childhood education; and CD-ROMs relating to World History: A Comparative Civilizations Perspective (2004).

Sub-series consists of copies of Wassermann's published books. Wassermann did not transfer a full run of her book titles; this sub-series represents only a very small fraction of her total output (5 out of ca. 30 books). It includes a copy of her first work, Teaching and Thinking: Theory and Application, co-authored with several colleagues, including her mentor Louis E. Raths; a 1988 work co-authored with J.W. George Ivany, SFU's Dean of Education and later VP Academic (Teaching Elementary Science: Who's Afraid of Spiders? ); Spanish translations of two of her titles; and her 2010 book on Grandparenting at a Distance. Full citations are given in the item descriptions.

Sub-series consists of contributions by Wassermann included in the published proceedings of three conferences: the 8th Annual Reading Conference at York University (1975), the Fourth National Symposium of the Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies (1983), and a conference convened in 1994 by The College Board on the Spanish Flu. Records consist of copies of the entire proceedings. Full citation and Wassermann's chapter titles are given in the file descriptions.

Series consists of keynote addresses and speeches Wassermann delivered at educational congresses and conferences. Where known, conference names and details are provided in the file descriptions. Records include speech text and notes.