Winter Reading List

On going from fall quarter

  • Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Doing It Right—Using It Well.  by Chappuis, Stiggins, Chappuis, & Arter (2011) Pearson Education.  NOTE: there are many versions of the book.  Be sure to get the 2011 edition.  **
  • Understanding by Design.  by Wiggins & McTighe (2005). ASCD.  ISBN-13: 9781416600350.   **

New for winter quarter  

For Everyone:

Seminar books

  • Tavris, C. & Aronson, E.  (2008) Mistakes were made (but not by me) Mariner Books.
  • Valenzuela, A. (1999) Subtractive Schooling .  State University of New York Press.
  • Lewis, A. (2003) Race in the Schoolyard  Rutgers University Press.
  • Tatum, B. (2003)  Why are all the black kids sitting together.  Basic Books.
  • Perry, T., Steele, C.,  & Hillard, A. (2004) Young, Gifted and Black.  Beacon Press.

Teaching for Critical Social Justice

  • Pollock, M. (2008) Everyday antiracism .  New Press.
  • DiAngelo, R., & Sensoy, O., (2011)  Is everybody really equal? Teachers College Press
  • David Barnett et al. (2010)  Privileged thinking in today’s schools: the implications for social justice (Available electronically through the library)
  • Gay, G. (2010)Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice

ELL

  • Filmore, L.W. & Snow, C.  (2000) “What Teachers Need to Know about Language” Eric Clearing House on Languages and Linguistics Special Report. Retrieved from: http://www.utpa.edu/dept/curr_ins/faculty_folders/guerrero_m/docs/links/FillmoreSnow2000.pdf.

 

For Elementary Folks

Math Methods:

  • Chapin, S.H., O’Connor, C., Canavan-Anderson, N. (2009).  Classroom discussions: Using math talk to help students learn.  Sausalito, CA: Math Solutions.
  • Parrish, S. (2010).  Number Talks. Sausalito, CA: Math Solutions.
  • Van de Walle, J.A. (2009). Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally. (7th Edition).  New York: Addison Wesley Longman.         

Literacy

  • Calkins, L. (2012)   Pathways to the Common Core. Heinemann Publishers.
  • Dorn, L. & Jone, T. (2012)  Apprenticeship in Literacy, 2nd Edition Stenhouse Publishers, ISBN: 978-157110-966-8.
  • Calkins, L. (2010) Launch an Intermediate Writing Workshop: Getting Started with Units of Study for Teaching Writing, Grades 3-5  — (Go to www. heinemann.com to get web/school price of $34.)
  • Calkins, L. (2010) Launch a Primary Writing Workshop: Getting Started with Units of Study for Primary Writing, Grades K-2 — (Go to www. heinemann.com to get web/school price of $34.)

 For Secondary folks

Content Area Literacy (all secondary folks)

  • McKenna, Michael C., Robinson, Richard D. (2001). Teaching Through Text: Reading and Writing in the Content Areas. (3rd Edition) Pearson Allyn & Bacon; 3rd edition. ISBN: 0205443281
  • Freeman, David E. and Freeman, Yvonne S.  (2008). Academic Language for English Language Learners and Struggling Readers.  Heinemann.   ISBN 978-0-325-01136-3 / 0-325-01136-2

Math Methods

  • Get same books as elementary math methods

 

 Science methods

  • Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5: Condensed Version National Academies Press
  • National Research Council (U.S.). (2004). How students learn: Science in the classroom.Washington, D.C:NationalAcademies.
  • National Research Council (U.S.). (2012). A framework for K-12 science education: Practices, crosscutting concepts, and core ideas.Washington, D.C: The National Academies Press.Bottom of Form
  • Michaels, S., Shouse, A. W., Schweingruber, H. A., & National Research Council (U.S.). (2008). Ready, set, science!: Putting research to work in K-8 science classrooms.Washington, D.C: National Academies Press
  • Tweed, A. (2009). Designing effective science instruction: What works in science classrooms.Arlington,Va: NSTA Press, NSTA Press, National Science Teachers Association/McREL
  • Keeley, P., & National Science Teachers Association. (2008). Science formative assessment: 75 practical strategies for linking assessment, instruction, and learning. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

English Language Arts (includes humanities, social studies & world languages folks)

  • Burke, J. (2012)  The English Teacher’s Companion, 4th edition  Heinemann.   (Go to www. heinemann.com to get web/school price)
  • Giouroukakis, V.M. & Connolly, M. (2012)  Getting to the Core of English Language Arts, Grades 6-12.  Corwin Press.   

 

NOTES:

  1. The college’s bookstore returns books by Week 6 to publishers/distributors.
  1. We will use American Education (Spring) and Smarter Together:Collaboration and Equity in the Elementary Math Classroom ( Featherstone, Crespo, Jilk, Oslund, Parks, and Wood, 2011) again in the Spring Quarter.