Wonderful English:A Treasury of English Pronunciation by Sean Burke
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Wonderful English is a comprehensive tool for the identification and practice of common English sounds. It covers consonants, vowels, diphthongs and common consonant blends, with engaging tongue twisters, rhyme, song and alliterative verse. It also assists teachers in exploring common culture, values and experience, which is usually encountered and consolidated in childhood.
The book is designed for use by ESL teachers. It is suitable for both beginning and advanced students. Primary teachers, as well as teachers of elementary phonics, speech therapy and drama, likewise, will find it an enjoyable and useful reference work. Parents of young children may also find it useful. More information here Buy the book here |
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The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
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Not a teaching book? Actually a book about how to better live life, and so at the very nub of what education is. Not easy, either, and as all real education involves some 'discomfort', Kondo doesn't disappoint.
Below is a one page summary of the Kondo Book
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The Well Balanced Child by Sally Goddard Blyth
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"Children of today are more sedentary than any previous generation. Traditional outdoor games - running and jumping, hopscotch, climbing trees, playing on a swing - are being abandoned in favour of television, computers and electronic games. As a result concern about rising levels of childhood obesity and inactivity is reaching unprecedented levels. Deprived of the crucial opportunities for exercising the body and the senses which prime the brain for learning in the early years, many children are, literally, unfit to learn. The Well Balanced Child is a passionate manifesto for a 'whole body' approach to learning which integrates the brain, senses, movement and play"
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
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...Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow....
This is a novel. Teachers should read it as it allows them to appreciate the different ways that different minds work. This is important. |
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You are Your Child's First Teacher by Rahima Baldwin Dancy
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You Are Your Child's First Teacher was the first book in America to popularize the insights of Rudolf Steiner, founder of the Waldorf schools, regarding the developmental needs of young children. This revised and updated edition offers new ways for parents and educators to enrich the lives of children from birth to age six.
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Lighting the Literacy Fire by Sean David Burke
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This book covers three interdependent areas; 1) Readiness for learning, 2) Teaching language skills, and 3) Learning together. These provide a foundation for teaching that can bring our children into a more creative relationship with their own language.
Buy the book here |
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Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing by A. S. Neil
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"The seven chapters of the book cover the origins and implementation of the school, and other topics in childrearing. Summerhill, founded in the 1920s, is run as a children's democracy under Neill's educational philosophy of self-regulation, where kids choose whether to go to lessons and how they want to live freely without imposing on others. The school makes its rules at a weekly schoolwide meeting where students and teachers each have one vote alike. Neill discarded other pedagogies for one of the innate goodness of the child."
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The Aims of Education and other essays by Alfred North Whitehead
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"Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth. What we should aim at producing is men who possess both culture and expert knowledge in some special direction. Their expert knowledge will give them the ground to start from, and their culture will lead them as deep as philosophy and as high as art."
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The Kingdom of Childhood, notes from lectures by Rudolf Steiner
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"These seven intimate, aphoristic talks were presented to a small group on Steiner's final visit to England. Because they were given to "pioneers" dedicated to opening a new Waldorf school, these talks are often considered one of the best introductions to Waldorf education.
Steiner shows the necessity for teachers to work on themselves first, in order to transform their own inherent gifts. He explains the need to use humor to keep their teaching lively and imaginative..." |
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Learner English by Swan and Smith
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Learner English is a well-established and successful reference book for teachers of British English. This new edition builds on the success of the original book. It has been rewritten and extended to provide information on the typical problems and error-patterns of a wide range of learners of English from particular language backgrounds. It compares the relevant features of the students' own language with English, helping teachers to predict and understand the problems that students have"
An indispensable reference work for ESL teachers |
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