Recommended
If you are interested in teaching you will necessarily have a lot of reading to do. Keep up with your subject, of course, but don’t miss the foundations of educational thought found in the classic texts of great thinkers and practitioners including Plato's Republic
Here are some additional recommendations: Five Minds for the Future by Howard Gardner Harvard Business School Press, 2006 Ways of thinking that you and your students need to develop to handle what lies ahead. Horace’s Compromise by Ted Sizer Houghton Mifflin, 1984 Horace’s School by Ted Sizer The New Science of Teaching and Learning by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa Teachers College Press, 2010 Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe Merrill Education/ASCD College Textbooks, 2005 The Measure of Our Success by Marian Wright Edelman Harper Paperbacks, 1993 Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande Metropolitan Books, 2007 The Courage to Teach, 10th edition by Parker Palmer Jossey-Bass, 2007 First Days of School: How to Be An Effective Teacher, 4th edition by Harry K. Wong and Rosemary T. Wong Harry K. Wong Publications, 2009 In the Middle: New Understandings About Writing, Reading, and Learning, 2nd edition by Nancie Atwell Boynton/Cook, 1998 How To Talk So Kids Can Learn by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish Harper Paperbacks, 1999 Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, 2nd edition by Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, and Bruce Patton Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1992 |
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