If You Could Recommend One Book  For a Beginning Teacher, What Would It Be?

• Assertive Discipline Positive Behavior by Lee and Marlene Canter.
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• Casualties of Privilege by Louis Crosier.
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• The Courage to Teach by Parker Palmer.
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• The Elements of Teaching by James M. Banner, Jr.
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• The First Days of School by Harry K. Wong.
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• The First Year of Teaching: Real World Stories from America's Teachers by Pearl Rock Kane.
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• A First-Year Teacher's Guidebook for Success by Bonnie Williamson and Sandy Thornton.
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• The Gift of Fire by Richard Mitchell
• High-Energy Teaching by M. Walker Buckalew.
• Horace's School: Redesigning the American High School by Ted Sizer.
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• How to Talk So Kids Can Learn by Adele Faber, et al.
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• Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez.
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• In the Middle by Nanci Atwell.
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• Lessons from Privilege by Arthur Powell.
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• Looking Ahead by Patrick Bassett.
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• The Passionate Teacher by Robert Fried.
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• Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood by William Pollack.
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• Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher.
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• School Girls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap by Peggy Orenstein.
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• The Skillful Teacher by Stephen Brookfield.
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• Smart Schools by David Perkins.
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• Teacher and Child: A Book for Parents and Teachers by Haim Ginott.
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• Teaching School: Points Picked Up by Eric W. Johnson.
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• Teaching with Love and Logic by Jim Fay.
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• The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff.
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• The Unschooled Mind by Howard Gardner.
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• Ties That Stress by David Elkind.
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• To Know As We Are Known : Education As a Spiritual Journey by Parker J. Palmer.
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• To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher by William Ayers.
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• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom.
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• Twenty Principles for Teaching Excellence: The Teacher's Workbook byM. Walker Buckalew.
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• Twenty Teachers by Ken MacRorie.
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Greg Feldmeth,
Polytechnic School,
Pasadena, California

Revised August 26, 1999