Reading List for Professional Development
Select one (or more) of the following to review:
Authors, Publication dates, and titles provided
*
indicates UMM
library owns this book
+indicates that a faculty
member owns this book and is willing to loan it to students
+ Armstrong,
T. (1998). Awakening Genius in the Classroom.
* Aronowitz, S. & Giroux, H. (1993). Education Still Under Siege.
+* Ashton-Warner, S. (1963, 1987). Teacher.
+* Ayers, W.
(1995). To Become a
Teacher: Making A Difference In Children’s
Lives.
* Beers, K. (2002). When Kids Can’t Read—What Teachers Can Do: A Guide for Teachers 6-12.
+* Berliner, D. & Biddle, B. (1995).
The Manufactured Crisis:
Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on
America’s Public Schools.
* Bloom, A.D.
(1987). The Closing Of The
American Mind.
+* Boutte, G. (Ed). (2002). Resounding Voices: Schools Experiences of
People From Diverse
Ethnic Backgrounds.
Brooks, J. & Brooks, M. (1999).
In Search Of Understanding:
The Case for Constructivist Classrooms.
+ Brophy, J. (1998). Motivating Students to Learn.
+* Brown, A. & Bransford, J. & Cocking,
R. (2000). How People Learn:
Brain, Mind,
Experience and School.
Bruer, J. (1994). Schools for Thought: A Science of Learning in the Classroom.
+ Caine, R. & Caine, G. (1998).
Education on the Edge of Possibility.
+ Caine, R. &
Caine, G. (1994). Making Connections: Teaching and the
Human
Brain.
+ Caine, R. &
Caine, G. (1998). Unleashing the Power of Perceptual
Change: The
Potential of Brain-Based
Teaching.
Campbell, L. & Campbell, B.
& Dickinson, D. (1998). Teaching and Learning Through Multiple
Intelligences.
* Carnochan, W.B. (1993). The
Battleground of the Curriculum.
+ Carter, Forrest & Rennard Strickland (2001). The education of Little Tree.
+* Clark, C., & O’Donnell, J. (Eds.) (1999). Becoming and Unbecoming White.
* Comer, J.
(1992). Raising Black
Children.
+ Cornelius, C. (1999). Iroquois Corn in a Culture-Based Curriculum: A Framework for Respectfully Teaching about Cultures.
* Crafton, L.
(1994). Challenges of
Holistic Teaching.
+
Cuffaro, Harriet K. (1995). Experimenting
with the world: John Dewey and the
early childhood classroom.
+
Dahlberg, G., Moss, P. and Pence A. (1999). Beyond quality in early childhood education and care: Postmodern perspectives.
Davis, R. & Braun, E. (1997).
The Gift of Dyslexia: Why
Some of the Smartest People Can’t Read and How They Can Learn.
+* Delpit, L.
(1995). Other People’s
Children: Cultural Conflict in the
Classroom.
+ Derman-Sparks,
L. & Phillip, C. (1997). Teaching / Learning Anti-Racism: A
Developmental Approach.
* Diamond, M. & Hopson, J. (1999).
Magic Trees of the Mind: How
to Nurture Your Child’s Intelligence, Creativity, and Healthy Emotions from Birth
through Adolescence.
Dixon-Krauss, L. (ed.). (1995).
Vygotsky in the Classroom: Mediated Literacy Instruction and
Assessment.
+ Freire, P. (1998).
Teachers as Cultural Workers:
Letters to Those Who Dare Teach.
+* Freire, P.
(1970, 1993, 1997). Pedagogy
of the Oppressed.
+* Freire, P.
(1992). Pedagogy of Hope.
+ Gardner, H. (1999).
The Disciplined Mind: What All Students Should Understand.
Gardner, H. (1993).
Multiple Intelligences.
+* Gardner, H.
(1991). The Unschooled
Mind: How Children Think and How
Schools Should Teach.
+* Gardner, H. (1983-1985). Frames of Mind.
* Gibbs, J.
(1995). Tribes: A New Way of Learning and Being Together.
+* Gilligan, C.
(1982, 1993). In a Different
Voice.
+ Ginsberg, M. B., & Wlodkowski, R. J.
(2000). Creating Highly Motivating
Classrooms for All Students: A Schoolwide Approach to Powerful Teaching with
Diverse Learners.
* Giroux, H.
(1988). Schooling and the
Struggle for Public Life.
Glasser, W. & Dotson, K. (1998).
Choice Theory in the Classroom.
+* Goodlad, J.
(1984). A Place Called
School.
Healy, J. (1999).
Endangered Minds: Why
Children Don’t Think and What We Can Do About
It.
Heath, S. (1983).
Ways With Words: Language,
Life, and Work in Communities and
Classrooms.
+ Hirsch, E.D.,
Jr. (1987). Cultural Literacy.
+* Holt, J.
(1995). How Children Learn.
+* hooks, b.
(1994). Teaching to
Transgress: Education as the Practice
of Freedom.
+* Howard, G. (1999). We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know: White Teacher, Multiracial
Schools.
* Howe, H.
(1993). Thinking About Kids.
* Jackson, P.
(1993). The Moral Life of
Schools.
Jensen, E. (1997).
Brain-Based Learning and Teaching.
Jensen, E. (1998).
Introduction to Brain Compatible Learning.
+ Jensen, E. (1998).
Teaching With The Brain In Mind.
Jonassen, D. (1998).
Learning with Technology: A Constructivist Perspective.
Kafai, Y. & Resnick, M. (1996).
Constructionism in Practice: Designing, Thinking, and Learning in a
Digital World.
+* Kidder, T.
(1989). Among Schoolchildren.
+* Kohl, H.
(1994). “I Won’t Learn from
You” and Other Thoughts in Creative
Maladjustment.
+ Kohl, H.
(1995). Should we Burn Babar?
+ Kohn, A. (1999). The Schools our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and “Tougher Standards.”
+ Kohn, A. (1998).
What to Look for In a Classroom.
+* Kohn, A.
(1993). Punished by Rewards.
+ Kohn, A. (1998). Beyond Discipline.
+* Kozol, J.
(2000). Ordinary
Resurrections: Children in the Years of
Hope.
+* Kozol, J.
(1995). Amazing Grace.
+* Kozol, J.
(1991). Savage
Inequalities: Children in America’s
Schools.
* Kozol, J.
(1991). On Being a Teacher.
+* Ladson-Billings, G. (1994). Dreamkeepers: Successful Teacher of African American Children.
Langer, E. (1998).
The Power of Mindful Learning.
+ Leong, D. &
Bodrova, E. (1995). Tools of the
Mind: The Vygotskian Approach to
Childhood Education.
+* Lightfoot, S. (1983). The Good High School.
+ * Lowen, J. W. (1995). Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your
American History Textbook Got Wrong.
+ Marzano, R. J. (2003). What
Works in Schools: Translating Research into Action.
* McAdams, R.
(1993). Lessons From Abroad.
McCarthy, C. (2002). I’d Rather Teach Peace.
Moll, L. (ed.). (1992).
Vygotsky and Education: Instructional Implications and Applications
Of Sociohistorical Psychology.
Molnar, A. (1996).
Giving Kids the Business: The
Commercialization of America’s
Schools.
Moses, R. and Cobb, C. E. Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights.
+* National Research Council. (1999). How People Learn: Brain, Mind,
Experience, and
School.
+* Neill, A.S.
(1960, 1992). Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing..
+* Nieto, S.
(2000). Affirming Diversity.
+* Nieto, S.
(1999). The Light in Their
Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning
Communities.
* Novak, J.
(1999). Learning, Creating,
and Using Knowledge.
+ Ohanian, S. (1999).
One Size Fits Few: The Folly
of Educational Standards.
+ Payne, R. K. (1998). A Framework for Understanding Poverty.
+* Peshkin, A.
(1978). Growing Up
American: Schools and the Survival of
Community.
+ Rose, M.
(1989). Lives On The Boundaries.
+ Rose, M.
(1995). Possible Lives.
* Sadker, M.
(1994). Failing at
Fairness: How America’s Schools Cheat
Girls.
* Sarason, S.
(1995). Parental Involvement
and the Political Principle: Why the
Existing Governance Structure of Schools Should Be Abolished.
Shannon, P. (1998).
Reading Poverty.
* Shannon, P.
(1992). Becoming Political.
+ Silver, H. &
Strong, R. & Perini, M.
(2000). So Each May Learn:
Integrating
Learning Styles and Multiple
Intelligences.
Simon, R. (1992).
Teaching Against the Grain:
Texts for a Pedagogy of Possibility.
+* Slavin, R.
(1994). Preventing Early
School Failure: Research, Policy, and
Practice.
* Stewart, D.
(1993). Immigration and
Education.
+* Tatum, B.
(1997). Why are all the Black
Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria and
Other Conversations About Race
Taylor, D. (1998).
Family Literacy: Young
Children Learning to Read and Write.
+ Tomlinson, C. A. (1999). The Differentiated Classroom: Responding
to the Needs of All
Learners
+* Weatherford, J. (1988). Indian Givers.
Wiggins, J. & McTighe,
J. (1998). Understanding By Design.
Winebrenner, S. & Espeland
P. (1997). Teaching Kids with Learning Difficulties in the Regular
Classroom.
* Winner, E.
(1996). Gifted Children.
+* Zemelman, S., Daniels, H., & Hyde, A. (1998). Best Practice: New Standards for Teaching
and Learning in America’s Schools.