So, You Want to be a Teacher

Booklist Winter 2003

Seminar Books
Week 1
Over Winter break, watch EITHER Stand and Deliver or Dead Poets' SocietyAND read The Giver by Lois Lowry.  The videos are available at commercial video stores.  The Giver is available at public libraries and at local bookstores.
 
Week 2
Clinchy, Evans. (2002). The Rights of all our Children:  A Plea for Action.  Heinemann.  ISBN# 0325003963.
 
Week 3
Brooks, Jacqueline. & Brooks, Martin.(1999).In Search of Understanding: The Case for Constructivist Classrooms.Alexandria, VA:ASCD.ISBN# 0871203588 pbk.
 
Week 4 
Choose ONE
Kozol, Jonathan. (1992). Savage Inequalities.Harper trade ISBN# 0060974990.

 

Delpit, Lisa.  (1996). Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflicts in the Classroom. New Press. ISBN: 1565841808.
 

Shandler, Sara.  (1999).  Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self.   Harper Perennial; ISBN: 0060952970.
 

Week 5
Moses, Robert P. and Cobb, Charles E.  (2001).  Radical Equations:  Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project.  Beacon Press.  ISBN# 0-8070-3127-5 pbk.
 
Week 6
Comer, James P. (1998). Waiting for a Miracle:  Why Schools Can’t Solve Our Problems—and How We Can.  Plume.  ISBN# 0452276462  pbk.
 
Week 7
Choose ONE

 
Flores-Gonzalez, Nilda.(2002).School Kids/Street Kids: Identity Development in Latino Students.  Teachers College Press.  ISBN# 0807742236.

 

Dyson, Anne Haas. (2003). The Brothers and Sisters Learn to Write: Popular Literacies in Childhood and School Cultures. Teachers College Press.  ISBN# 0807742805 pbk.
 

Goodman, Steven.  (2003).  Teaching Youth Media: A Critical Guide to Literacy, Video Production, and Social Change. Teachers College Press. ISBN# 0807742880pbk.
 

Week 8

Choose ONE

Greenburg, Daniel. (2002).  A Clearer View:  Insights into the Sudbury School Model.  Sudbury Valley School Press.  ISBN# 1888947225.

 

Steiner, Rudolf. The Renewal of Education. Anthroposophic Press.  ISBN# 00880104554.
 

Walmsley, Sean.(1994).Children Exploring their Worlds:  Theme Teaching in Elementary School. Heinemann.  ISBN# 0-435-08804-1.

 

Week 9
Barbieri, Maureen.  (2002).  Change My Life Forever:  Giving Voice to English-Language Learners.  Heinemann.  ISBN# 0325004730.
 

Workshop Books (Keep from Fall Quarter if you have them)