My All Time Favorite Teaching Books
The Energy To Teach
By, Donald Graves
Ever feel like teaching was draining you of all your energy, patience, and even sanity? If so then READ THIS BOOK! Graves speaks so eloquently about how to actually gain energy from teaching. This book helps to put teaching into perspective, and helps you to refocus on the positives of helping students learn and molding young lives. It is very relatable and motivating.


The New Elementary Teacher's Handbook: Flourishing In Your First Year
By, Kathleen Feeney Jonson
This is a very practical guide for preparing for your first year of teaching Elementary School. It is an easy-to-read handbook that offers comprehensive guidance in a wide range of issues. From dealing with students, parents, staff, and principals, to setting up your classroom, implementing discipline strategies, and several other classroom complexities. This is a survival guide.


One Minute Discipline: Classroom Management Strategies That Work
By, Arnie Bianco
This book is a fun-to-read resource. It is filled with tons of great advice, tested techniques, useful strategies, and reliable methods for achieving classroom success. The information is easy to read in list format, with fun pictures.


So Much Stuff, So Little Space: Creating and Managing The Learner-Centered Classroom
By, Susan Nations and Suzi Boyett
This is a great book with lots of strategies for organizing your classroom and maximizing any space. It gives really practical advice for dealing with all the clutter that accumulates in elementary school classrooms, and for creating an environment that is reall conducive to learning. The tips, tricks, and suggestions in this book are really helpful.


You've Got The Job--Now Keep It! Tips For Tackling Your First Year of Teaching
By, Maria Calamito-Proto and Rachel James
I found this book to be a really great resource for bridging the gap between a college credential program and your first year of teaching. It gives practical, common sense strategies for surviving and enjoying your first year of teaching. It guides new teachers to learn how to spend less time worrying about unknown challenges that lie ahead, and more time on the activities and lessons they've dreamed of implementing in the classroom. It helps with implementation techniques and management strategies from day one. Also, it has tons of teacher testimonials that are very helpful. This book has a little bit of everything.


My First Year of Teaching: Twenty-Five Teachers Talk About Their Amazing First-Year Classroom Experiences
Edited By, Pearl Rock Kane
This book gives first hand accounts from teachers about their first year of teaching. The stories are entertaining, humorous, eye-opening, and touching. The book is inspiring as it helps you connect with others who have also taken those courageous first steps in one of the most challenging and rewarding professions out there.


For The Love Of Language: Poetry for Every Learner
By, Nancy Lee Cecil
This is my FAVORITE book for teaching poetry! It is filled with great lesson ideas for having your students write their very own poetry. It gives lesson plans, lots of student examples, and it inspires you to make poetry a central piece of your classroom.