Top 100++ Books for Teacher

Developing Teaching Techniques

• Small Teaching by James Lang
• The MAA Instructional Practices Guide
• Classroom Assessment Techniques by Angelo and Cross
• Teaching What You Don’t Know by Therese Huston

Beyond the Basics

• The Spark of Learning by Sarah Rose Cavanagh
• Learner-Centred Teaching by Maryellen Weimer
• The Slow Professor by Berg and Seeber

On Course Design

• Creating Significant Learning Experiences by L. Dee Fink
• Understanding by Design by Wiggins and McTighe
• Learning and Assessing with Multiple Choice Questions in College Classrooms by Parkes and Zimmaro

Professor

• The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D Into a Job by Karen Kelsky, P.h.D.
• So You Want to Be a Professor: How to Land Your Dream Job in Academia by Drew Boyd
• So You Want To Be A Professor? A Handbook for Graduate Students by P. Aarne Vesilind
• So You Want To Be A Professor by Peter C. Hughes and Roderick C. Tennyson
• How to Become a Professor by Stephen Jenkins
• Teaching College: The Ultimate Guide to Lecturing, Presenting and Engaging Students by Norman Eng
• The Adjunct Professor’s Complete Guide to Teaching College: How to be an Effective and Successful Instructor by Anthony D. Fredericks
• Becoming a Professor: A Guide to a Career in Higher Education by Marie K. Iding , R. Murray Thomas
• The Unwritten Rules of Professional Etiquette: Building a Positive Reputation in Graduate School by Ryan Sharma

Teacher

• Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World by Don Tapscott
• Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom by Sylvia Libow Martinez and Gary Stager
• Crash Course: The Life Lessons My Students Taught Me by Kim Bearden
• How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough
• Why School?: How Education Must Change When Learning and Information Are Everywhere by Will Richardson
• Falling in Love with Close Reading: Lessons for Analyzing Textsu2013and Life by Christopher Lehman and Kate Roberts
• This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education by Jose Vilson
• The Monsters of Education Technology by Audrey Watters
• Getting Smart: How Digital Learning is Changing the World by Tom Vander Ark
• Who Owns the Learning?: Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age by Alan November
• Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level by Don Wettrick
• Itu2019s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens by Danah Boyd
• The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Childu2019s Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel
• The Third Teacher: 79 Ways You Can Use Design to Transform Teaching & Learning by Ou2019Donnell, Wicklund, Pigozzi, and Peterson
• Passion-Driven Classroom, The: A Framework for Teaching and Learning by Angela Maiers and Amy Sandvold
• Classroom Habitudes (Revised edition): Teaching Habits and Attitudes for 21st Century Learning by Angela Maiers
• Teach Like a Pirate: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator by Dave Burgess
• The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way by Amanda Ripley
• Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World by Tony Wagner
• World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students by Yong Zhao
• Self-Driven Learning: Teaching Strategies for Student Motivation byLarry Ferlazzo
• A Sustainable Start: A Realistic Look at the First Year of Teaching by John T. Spencer
• The Highly Engaged Classroom (The Classroom Strategies Series) by Robert J. Marzano
• High-Impact Instruction: A Framework for Great Teaching by Jim Knight
• Awakened: Change Your Mindset to Transform Your Teaching by Angela Watson
• Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College (K-12) by Doug Lemov
• Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day by Jonathan Bergmann
• Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds: Move to Global Collaboration One Step at a Time (Pearson Resources for 21st Century Learning) by Vicki Davis & Julie Lindsay
• Reinventing Writing: The 9 Tools That Are Changing Writing, Teaching, and Learning Forever by Vicki Davis
• Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education by Will Richardson and Rob Mancabelli
• Unleashing Student Superpowers: Practical Teaching Strategies for 21st Century Students by Kristen Swanson and Hadley Ferguson
• Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions by Dan Rothstein
• Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners by Ron Ritchhart
• Schooling By Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
• Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning by John Hattie
• The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything by Stephen M.R. Covey
• Digital Leadership: Changing Paradigms for Changing Times by Eric C. Sheninger
• Wooden On Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization by John Wooden
• Leading in a Culture of Change by Michael Fullan
• The Ten-Minute Inservice: 40 Quick Training Sessions that Build Teacher Effectiveness by Todd Whitaker
• What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media by Scott McLeod, Chris Lehmann, and David F. Warlick
• Leading Professional Learning: Tools to Connect and Empower Teachers (Corwin Connected Educators Series) by Thomas C. Murray and Jeff Zoul
• The Student Leadership Challenge: Five Practices for Becoming an Exemplary Leader by James M. Kouzes
• The Power of Branding: Telling Your Schoolu2019s Story (Corwin Connected Educators Series) by Tony Sinanis and Joe Sanfelippo
• #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education by Grant Lichtman
• Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered by Austin Kleon
• Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon
• The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It For Life by Twyla Tharp
• Story Engingeering by Larry Brooks
• The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child by Donalyn Miller
• Building Literacy with Love: A Guide for Teachers and Caregivers of Children from Birth Through Age 5 by Betty S. Bardige and Marilyn M. Segal-
• Interactive Writing by Trisha Callella-Jones and Kimberly Jordano
• Igniting A Passion for Reading: Successful Strategies for Building Lifetime Readers by Stephen L. Layne
• Reading Picture Books With Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking About What They See by Megan Dowd Lambert-
• The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller
• How to Get Your Child to Love Reading by Esme Raji Codell
• Native Writers: Voices of Power by Kim Sigafus and Lyle Ernst
• Talking, Drawing, Writing: Lessons for Our Youngest Writers by Martha Horn and Mary Ellen Giacobbe-
• Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading by Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probsthelp children reach true comprehension of text in an authentic way.
• 7 Keys to Comprehension: How to Help Your Kids Read It and Get It! By Susan Zimmermann and Chryse Hutchins
• Reading With Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades by Debbie Miller
• Disrupting Thinking: How Why We Read Matters by Kylene Beers and Robert Probst
• Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School by Georgia Heard and Naomi Shihab Nye
• Number Talks by Sherry Parrish
• Classroom Discussions: Seeing Math Discourse in Action by Nancy Canavan Anderson, Suzanne H. Chapin, and Cathy O’Connor
• Doing Math in Morning Meeting: 150 Quick Activities That Connect to Your Curriculum by Andy Dousis and Margaret Berry Wilson
• Doing Science in Morning Meeting: 150 Quick Activities that Connect to Your Curriculum by Lara Webb and Margaret Wilson
• Good Questions for Math Teaching, Grades 5-8: Why Ask Them and What To Ask by Lainie Schuster and Nancy Canavan Anderson
• Table Talk Math: A Practical Guide for Bringing Math into Everyday Conversations by John Stevens
• But Why Does It Work? Mathematical Argument in the Elementary Classroom by Susan Jo Russell, Deborah Schifter, Virginia Bastable, Traci Higgins, Reva Kasman
• Teaching What Really Happened
• An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• American Indians: Stereotypes and Realities by Devon A. Mihesuah
• Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson
• Teaching Science with Trade Books by Christine Anne Royce, Emily Morgan, Karen Ansberry
• Montessori In The Classroom: A Teacher’s Account of How Children Really Learn by Paula Polk Lillard
• The Syracuse-Referenced Curriculum Guide for Students with Moderate to Severe Disabilities by Alison Ford
• Exceptional Students: Preparing Teachers for the 21st Century by Ronald L. Taylor and Stephen B. Richards
• Crosscultural, Language, and Academic Development Handbook by Lynne T. Diaz-Rico
• The First Six Weeks of School by Paula Denton and Roxann Kriete-
• Who Owns The Learning?:Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age by Alan November
• The Cornerstone: Classroom Management That Makes Teaching More Effective, Efficient, and Enjoyable by Angela Powell
• Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4-14 by Chip Wood
• Why Don’t Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom by Daniel T. Willingham
• Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooksgaining of marketable skills, this is an important read about teaching students to “transgress” and rail against injustices that are racial, sexual, and socioeconomic in nature. A book that will benefit anyone in a position to mold young minds. (AOC)
• Teachers as Cultural Workers by Paulo Freire and Dale April Koike (Translator)
• Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom by Lisa Delpit
• Educating Activist Allies: Social Justice Pedagogy with Suburban and Urban Elite by Katy Swalwell
• How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough
• A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne
• Teaching With Poverty In Mind b y Eric Jensen
• Other People’s Words: The Cycle of Low Literacy by Victoria Purcell-Gates
• Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools: Closing the Achievement Gap in America’s Classrooms by Tyrone C. Howard“Important reading for anyone who is genuinely committed to promoting educational equity and excellence for all children, this accessible book outlines the changing racial, ethnic, and cultural demographics in U.S. schools and calls for educators to pay serious attention to how race and culture play out in school settings.” -Amazon
• Culturally Responsive Teaching & The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Hammond
• Variations on a Blue Guitar: The Lincoln Center Institute Lectures on Aesthetic Education by Maxine Greene
• Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls In Schools by Monique W. Morris “the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center for violating a court order to attend school.” -Amazon
• The Language of Learning: Teaching Students Thinking, Listening, and Speaking Skills by Margaret Berry Wilsonthe most impactful educational books I have ever read. It teaches students how to argue. In an age where all facts are carried around in our back pockets, the educational emphasis is shifting, and being able to reason through, question, and defend our thoughts without offense or vitriol is a skill that our students need.
• Good Thinking: Teaching Argument, Persuasion, and Reasoning by Erik Palmer
• The Way They Learn: How to Discover and Teach To Your Child’s Strengths by Cynthia Ulrich Tobias
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
• Growth Mindset Coach: A Teacher’s Month-to-Month Handbook for Empowering Students to Achieve by Annie Brock and Heather Hundley
• Your Fantastic, Elastic Brain: Stretch It, Shape It by JoAnn Deak Ph. D. and Sarah Ackerley growth mindset to elementary students.
• Teach Like A Pirate: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Creativity, and Transform Your Life As An Educator by Dave Burgess
• See Me After Class: Advice for Teachers by Teachers by Roxanna Elden
• I Wish My Teacher Knew: How One Question Can Change Everything For Our Kids by Kyle Schwartz
• My Teacher is a Monster! by Peter Brown
• Miss Nelson is Missing by James Marshall
• Substitute Creature
• Because I Had a Teacher by Kobi Yamada and Natalie Russell
• Thank You, Mr. Falker
• Miss Smith’s Incredible Storybook by Michael Garland
• Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! by Dr. Seuss, Jack Prelutsky, and Lane Smith students and excellent teachers. When a standardized test threatens to dampen their love of learning, the entire school learns to trust their brains and rely on what they already know.
• Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
• Freedom School, Yes! By Amy Littlesugar and Floyd Cooper
• Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beatty and David Roberts
• Don’t Say Ain’t by Irene Smalls
• My Teacher is an Alien by Bruce Coville
• Jamaica and the Substitute Teacher by Juanita Hall and Anne Sibley O’Brien
• Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery
• Matilda by Roald Dahl
• Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kauffmanadministration.
• Gabi, A Girl In Pieces by Isabel Quintero
• My Great Aunt Arizona by Gloria Houston and Susan Condie Lamb
• Lailah’s Lunchbox by Reem Faruqi and Lea Lyon
• My Teacher’s Secret Life by Stephen Krensky
• A Letter to my Teacher by Deborah Hopkinson
• My Teacher by James Ransome
• Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea
• The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen Year Old Boy With Autism by Naoki Higashida, translated by KA Yoshida and David Mitchell
• Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire by Rafe Esquith
• I Am A Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories by Sam Swope
• Ms. Moffett’s First Year: Becoming A Teacher in America by Abby GoodnoughTimes, this book follows a career-changer through her first year in a first grade classroom.
• Why Do Only White People Get Abducted By Aliens?: Teaching Lessons from the Bronx by Ilana Garon
• Bridge to Brilliance: How One Principal in a Tough Community is Inspiring the World by Nadia Lopez
• The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons From America From a Small School in Harlem by Deborah Meier
• See You When We Get There: Teaching for Change in Urban Schools by Gregory Michie
• Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity by Beverly Daniel Tatum
• Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academic by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs , Yolanda Flores Niemann , Carmen G. Gonzalez Angela P. Harris
• Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown
• Unshakeable: 20 Ways To Enjoy Teaching Everyday…No Matter What by Angela Watson
• The Happy Teacher Habits: 11 Habits of the Happiest, Most Effective Teachers on Earth by Michael Linsin
• Lift Off: From the Classroom to the Stars by Donovan Livingston
• Start Where You Are, But Don’t Stay There: Understanding Diversity, Opportunity Gaps, and Teaching in Today’s Classroomsby H. Richard Milner IV
• Teacher Life: A Snarky Chalkboard Coloring Book by Papeterie Bleu
• Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get on the Mat, Love Your Body by Jessamyn Stanley
• A Moment for Teachers: Self-Care for Busy Teachers by Alice Langholt
• The Inspired Teacher: Zen Advice for the Happy Teacher by Donna Quesada
• Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom by Patricia A. Jennings
• Teach, Breathe, Learn: Mindfulness in and out of the Classroom by Meena Srinivasan

Reference :

1. https://medium.com/@SMayesTang/my-top-10-book-recommendations-for-university-instructors-fa48a6025c8a
2. https://resources.noodle.com/articles/7-must-read-books-for-anyone-thinking-about-becoming-a-professor/
3. https://www.edarabia.com/100-books-every-teacher-should-read/
4. https://bookriot.com/100-must-read-books-for-and-about-teachers/