I love to read!
The only real time I get to do that is over the Summer. I spent hours relaxing and catching up on my to-read list. During the school year I'm lucky to finish 2 books.
This year I threw in a few "teacher reads" too.
Here are my a few of my favorite books for elementary school teachers (in no particular order). I'd love to hear what your favorite is.
"A New York Times-bestselling breakthrough book about talent,
passion, and achievement from the one of the world's leading thinkers on
creativity and self-fulfillment.
The Element is the point at
which natural talent meets personal passion. When people arrive at the
Element, they feel most themselves and most inspired and achieve at
their highest levels. With a wry sense of humor, Ken Robinson looks at
the conditions that enable us to find ourselves in the Element and those
that stifle that possibility. Drawing on the stories of a wide range of
people, including Paul McCartney, Matt Groening, Richard Branson,
Arianna Huffington, and Bart Conner, he shows that age and occupation
are no barrier and that this is the essential strategy for transforming
education, business, and communities in the twenty-first century.
Also available from Ken Robinson is Finding Your Element, the practical guide to achieving your highest potential."
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"Don't wait for teaching to become fun again: plan for it! Unshakeable is
a collection of inspiring mindset shifts and practical, teacher-tested
ideas for getting more satisfaction from your job. It's an approach that
guides you to find your inner drive and intrinsic motivation which no
one can take away. Unshakeable will help you
incorporate a love of life into your teaching, and a love of teaching
into your life. Learn how to tap into what makes your work inherently
rewarding and enjoy teaching every day...no matter what."
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Author Brigid Schulte, an award-winning journalist for the
Washington Post -and harried mother of two - began the journey quite by
accident, after a time-use researcher insisted that she, like all
American women, had 30hours of leisure each week. Stunned, she accepted
his challenge to keep time diary and began a journey that would take her
from the depths of what she described as the Time Confetti of her days
to a conference in Paris with time researchers from around the world, to
North Dakota, of all places, where academics are studying the modern
love affair with busyness, to Yale, where neuroscientists are finding
that feeling overwhelmed is actually shrinking our brains, to exploring
new lawsuits uncovering unconscious bias in the workplace, why the US
has no real family policy, and where states and cities are filling the
federal vacuum. Read more
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Donalyn Miller says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a
reader. No matter how far behind Miller's students might be when they
reach her 6th grade classroom, they end up reading an average of 40 to
50 books a year. Miller's unconventional approach dispenses with drills
and worksheets that make reading a chore. Instead, she helps students
navigate the world of literature and gives them time to read books they
pick out themselves. Her love of books and teaching is both infectious
and inspiring. The book includes a dynamite list of recommended "kid
lit" that helps parents and teachers find the books that students really
like to read.
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Teach Like a Champion offers effective teaching techniques to
help teachers, especially those in their first few years, become
champions in the classroom. These powerful techniques are concrete,
specific, and are easy to put into action the very next day. Training
activities at the end of each chapter help the reader further their
understanding through reflection and application of the ideas to their
own practice.
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The Daily 5, Second Edition retains the core literacy components
that made the first edition one of the most widely read books in
education and enhances these practices based on years of further
experience in classrooms and compelling new brain research. The Daily 5
provides a way for any teacher to structure literacy (and now math)
time to increase student independence and allow for individualized
attention in small groups and one-on-one.
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