The Library of Books related to Teaching

I started my collection of teaching books as a preservice teacher and it keeps growing. Following is a list of books recommendations that I have received form many educators! Some I have read and written about on A Teacher’s Hat, others are on their way!

I invite you to recommend books that I have missed here: please contact me here and I will add them. You can also tweet to @book_tastic or @a_teachers_hat.

Let’s bring together the best books on teaching we have read and want educators to read!

General

1. From Master Teacher to Master Learner — Will Richardson
2. Empower — John Spencer & A.J. Juliani
3. Innovator’s Mindset — George Couros
4. Teach like a Pirate — Dave Burgess
5. The Differentiated Classroom — Carol Ann Tomlinson
6. The Differentiated Flipped Classroom: A Practical Guide to Digital Learning — Eric M Carbaugh & Kristina J Doubet
7. Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education — Sir Ken Robinson & Lou Aronica
8. Contemporary Readings in Curriculum — Slater Stern, Barbara, Marcella Kysilka
9. How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character — Paul Tough
10. Shake Up Learning — Kasey Bell
11. Why Students Don’t Like School — Daniel T Willingham
12. The Conscious Classroom — Amy Edelstein
13. Teach like your hair is on fire — Rafe Esquith
14. Pedagogy of the Oppressed — Paulo Freire
15. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success — Carol S. Dweck
16. Launch: Using Design Thinking to Boost Creativity and Bring Out the Maker in Every Student — John Spencer &‎ A.J. Juliani
17. Social LEADia: Moving Students from Digital Citizenship to Digital Leadership — Jennifer Casa-Todd
18. Conscious Classroom Management: Unlocking the Secrets of Great Teaching — Rick Smith
19. What great teachers do differently — Todd Whitaker
20. Teaching outside of the box — Louann Johnson
21. Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms — Timothy D. Walker
22. Happy Kids Don’t Punch You in the Face: A Guide to Eliminating Aggressive Behavior in School — Ben Springer
23. Why Does Izzy Cover Her Ears? Dealing with Sensory Overload — Jennifer Veenendall
24. Arnie and His School Tools: Simple Sensory Solutions That Build Success — Jennifer Veenendall
25. Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year, Expanded Edition — Esmé Raji Codell
26. The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need —and What We Can Do About It — Tony Wagner
27. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder — Richard Louv
28. Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4–14 — Chip Wood
29. Radical Reflections — Mem Fox
30. Lead Like a PIRATE: Make School Amazing for Your Students and Staff — Shelley Burgess &‎ Beth Houf
31. Kids Deserve It!: Pushing Boundaries and Challenging Conventional Thinking — Todd Nesloney & Adam Welcome
32. The Wild Card: 7 Steps to an Educator’s Creative Breakthrough — Wade King & Hope King
33. The EduProtocol Field Guide: 16 Student-Centered Lesson Frames for Infinite Learning Possibilities — Marlena Hebern &‎ Jon Corippo
34. Explore Like a Pirate: Gamification and Game-Inspired Course Design to Engage, Enrich and Elevate Your Learners — Michael Matera
35. Play Like a PIRATE: Engage Students withToys, Games, and Comics — Quinn Rollins
36. The Classroom Chef: Sharpen Your Lessons, Season Your Classes, Make Math Meaningful — John Stevens &‎ Matt Vaudrey
37. Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us And What We Can Do — Claude M Steele

Assessment

1. Softening the Edges : Assessment Practices That Honor K-12 Teachers and Learners — Katie White
2. The Feedback Fix : Dump the Past, Embrace the Future, and Lead the Way to Change — Joe Hirsch
3. Ditch That Homework: Practical Strategies to Help Make Homework Obsolete — Matt Miller & Alice Keeler
4. Ditch That Textbook: Free Your Teaching and Revolutionize Your Classroom — Matt Miller
5. Fair Isn’t Always Equal, 2nd Edition: Assessment & Grading in the Differentiated Classroom — Rick Wormeli

Math

1. Mathematical Mindsets — Jo Boaler
2. Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You’d Had: Ideas and Strategies from Vibrant Classrooms — Tracy Zager
3. How to Prove It: A Structured Approach (2nd edition)— Daniel Velleman
4. Introduction to Mathematical Thinking — Keith Devlin
5. Concept-Rich Mathematics Instruction — Meir Ben-Hur
6. Thinking Mathematically — John Mason
7. Questions and Prompts for Mathematical Thinking — Anne Watson and John Mason
8. Mathematical Modeling and Modeling Mathematics — NCTM
9. How Humans Learn to Think Mathematically — David Tall

Computing Science

1. Guide to Teaching Computing Science : An Activity-based Approach — Orit Hazzan, Tami Lapidot & Noa Ragonis
2. Women in Tech — Tara Wheeler

Language Arts

1. Igniting a Passion for Reading: Successful strategies for building lifetime readers — Steven L. Layne
2. The Reading Strategies Book: Your everything guide to developing skilled readers — Jennifer Serravallo
3. The Writing Strategies Book: Your everything guide to developing skilled writers — Jennifer Serrevallo
4. The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child — Donalyn Miller and Jeff Anderson
5. Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer’s Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits — Donalyn Miller and Susan Kelley
6. Readicide — Kelly Gallagher

Science Education

1. Targeting Students’ Science Misconceptions — Joseph Stepans
2. Rise and shine: a practical guide for the beginning science teacher — Linda Froschauer & Mary Bigelow

Other Inspiring Books

1. Thinking, fast and slow — Daniel Kahneman
2. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead Hardcover — Sheryl Sandberg
3. Books by Peter H. Reynolds (example Dot, Ish, Sky Color)
4. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day — Judith Viorst and Ray Cruz
5. Are We There Yet? Hardcover — Dan Santat
6. The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend Hardcover — Dan Santat
7. Lord Rex: The Lion Who Wished Hardcover — David McKee
8. Overcoming The Dark Side Of Leadership — Gary L. Mcintosh & Samuel D. Rima
9. The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership — Bill Walsh & Steve Jamison