Books for the professional teacher
It seems like every other day a professor gives out the title of a book that would be invaluable to a professional library. Rather than just keep a personal list that only I benefit from, I thought I would keep the list here. Feel free to comment any others that we as educators should familiarize ourselves with. Learning for the teacher does not stop when they enter the classroom.
Language Arts/ Writing
Reading
Classroom Management
Other (Many of these I got from my class "Role of the Teacher in American Schools")
Language Arts/ Writing
- Craft Lessons - Ralph Fletcher
- Writer's Notebook - Ralph Fletcher
- Mechanically Inclined - Jeff Anderson
- 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know - Jeff Anderson
- Nonfiction Craft Lessons - JoAnn Portalupi & Ralph Fletcher
- Writing Workshop - Ralph Fletcher
Reading
- Comprehension from the Group Up - Sharon Taberski
- Strategies that Work - Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis
- Phonics They Use - Patricia Cunningham
- Words Their Way - Donald R. Bear
Classroom Management
- Teaching Children to Care - Ruth Sidney Charney
- The Classroom Management Book - Harry and Rosemary Wong
- The First Days of School - Harry Wong
Other (Many of these I got from my class "Role of the Teacher in American Schools")
- Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg
- The Skin that We Speak - Lisa Delpit
- Other People's Children - Lisa Delpit
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire
- Savage Inequalities - Jonathan Kozol
- Teaching Sucks, but We Love It - Frank Stepnowski
- Teaching With Poverty in Mind - Eric Jensen
- Class and Schools - Richard Rothstein