What Books Should Teachers Read? is the latest question-of-the-week at my Education Week Teacher column.
Feel free to leave your suggestions there or in the comments section of this blog.
What Books Should Teachers Read? is the latest question-of-the-week at my Education Week Teacher column.
Feel free to leave your suggestions there or in the comments section of this blog.
Fiction comes to my mind first. Some may be surprised, but I’d recommend Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. It has some brilliant metaphors on education system, punishment and motivation. I don’t think there are teachers who’ve never read Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, for me it is a good example of book that helps you understand teenagers. To understand students better I always recommend Why Don’t Students Like School? by Daniel T. Willingham to my colleagues. Pedagogy of Hope by Paulo Freire is just inspiring in my opinion. An try to read some modern fiction to keep up with the youth