Entering the world of teaching can be both exciting and terrifying! From pre-school to graduate school and every grade in between, finding the best strategies and tools to create a successful classroom can be overwhelming for even the most experienced teachers. But all experienced and beginning teachers have one thing in common. They were all new teachers once. With the help of these 45 books for new teachers, you will learn how to become a successful and effective teacher. Who knows? Maybe one day you will be writing advice for teachers.
Books About Classroom Management, Tips, and Tools
1. The New Teacher Book: Finding Purpose, Balance and Hope During Your First Years in the Classroom
Offering practical guidance and tips for new teachers, it is no wonder why this popular book is in its third edition. This soon-to-be classic offers practical advice on forming close relationships with students and families from diverse cultures and backgrounds while helping new teachers excel in the early stages of their teaching careers.
2. Your First Year: How to Survive and Thrive as a New Teacher
Learn how to not only survive but thrive as a first-year teacher! With tips and tools to help navigate the challenges many new teachers face, you will learn classroom management skills, how to produce effective lessons, and ideas to set up your classroom and establish procedures and rules. In addition, these three successful teachers will guide you as you deal with behavior issues as well as your own emotions. Full of examples and practical advice, this book is sure to be your Survival Tool.
3. I Wish My Teacher Knew: How One Question Can Change Everything for Our Kids Hardcover
In a world where test scores and data have taken precedence, we often forget what student learning is all about. This insightful book for teachers reminds both new and veteran teachers that for truly effective teaching to occur in a safe and supportive environment, we need to be aware of the outside factors that affect our students.
4. The New Teacher's Guide to Overcoming Common Challenges
Learn to overcome ten of the most common challenges new teachers face in this hands-on guidebook from expert teachers. Get advice from veteran and successful new teachers from rural, suburban, and urban areas as they mentor you towards a successful first year. Packed full of helpful strategies and timely advice for teaching in a post-pandemic society, the new teacher can take a deep breath as they realize they are not in this alone!
5. The First-Year Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools & Activities for Meeting the Challenges of Each School Day
Meet each school day with confidence with the help of Julia G. Thompson and her award-winning book for educators. Now in its fourth edition, beginning educators will be introduced to tricks and tips for successful classroom management, differentiated instruction, and so much more! With downloadable videos, forms, and worksheets, this book is a must-have for ALL new teachers.
6. THE First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher, 5th Edition (Book & DVD)
Known as the education staple for preparing effective teachers, this 5th edition book by Harry K. Wong and Rosemary T. Wong, is the most highly requested book for new teachers to create an effective classroom and ensure student success.
7. Hacking Classroom Management: 10 Ideas To Help You Become the Type of Teacher They Make Movies About (Hack Learning Series)
Have you ever wondered why teachers in movies NEVER seem to have any problems? Do you want to be like them? Find out how to accomplish this with 10 super easy and fast classroom management tricks from Utah English Teacher of the Year, Mike Roberts. These tools for teaching will put the FUN back into teaching while making discipline a thing of the past!
8. 101 Answers for New Teachers and Their Mentors: Effective Teaching Tips for Daily Classroom Use
How should I set up my classroom? What is the best discipline policy? How can I differentiate instruction in my lessons? This indispensable book will answer all of these questions and more while giving new and mentor teachers confidence in the classroom.
9. Get Better Faster: A 90-Day Plan for Coaching New Teachers
Coach new teachers to be the best they can be with this book of simple yet practical advice: Quit evaluating and start developing. Just like members of a team, teachers need to be guided and coached through the steps of becoming a strong teacher. Coaches and administrators alike will find this book invaluable for forming a strong teaching team.
10. Everything a New Elementary School Teacher REALLY Needs to Know (But Didn't Learn in College)
So you went to college to become a teacher. Now what? In this book targeted for the elementary teacher, you will learn all the details and information that your college professors didn't tell you like keeping a spare set of clothes for those days when the glue and glitter get out of control or how to calm down during the first meet the teacher. Find yourself thriving rather than surviving!
11. What Great Teachers Do Differently: 17 Things That Matter Most, Second Edition
In the second edition of this heartwarming book, new teachers will discover how great teachers put students first, mean what they say, and imagine things from the student's point of view to establish positive relationships that lead to success.
12. The New Teacher's Companion: Practical Wisdom for Succeeding in the Classroom
Learn to tackle the emotional and physical demands of teaching with help from mentor teacher Gini Cunningham. Full of classroom management strategies as well as instructional strategies, The New Teacher's Companion will prevent new teacher burnout and create a rewarding learning environment.
13. The Baller Teacher Playbook
We are in it for the kids! That's why all teachers enter the profession, but without a clear plan on how to run a classroom and make a day of school run smoothly, many teachers end up feeling lost. Tyler Tarver's book teaches that classroom instruction is more than just a lecture. It is a shared classroom community that empowers both students and teachers. With 18 weekly chapters, you are sure to create happy and engaged learners.
14. The Everything New Teacher Book: Increase Your Confidence, Connect With Your Students, and Deal With the Unexpected
Get off to a great start with the revised edition of this best-selling essential book. Veteran teacher Melissa Kelly offers practical strategies and advice to help the new and passionate teacher achieve the confidence and skills to become the best educator they can be!
15. 75 Ways to Be a Better Teacher Tomorrow: With Less Stress and Quick Success
See an immediate improvement in your classroom by using simple and uncomplicated techniques to improve learning outcomes, classroom management, student motivation, and parent involvement.
16. Don't Just Survive, Thrive
Pedagogy
17. Fully Engaged: Playful Pedagogy for Real Results
Teachers and students around the world are desperate for a new way of learning and teaching. Students want to become the hero of their learning while teachers want choice, mastery, and a sense of purpose. Filled with student-centered activities and strategies, discover how together with your pedagogy, fun, curiosity, and excitement can once again be alive in the classroom.
18. Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom
Find your solution to teaching reading with this simple and effective balanced literacy guide. Each unique chapter is dedicated to a scientifically proven sound shift like Reading Comprehension, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, and more. With evidence-based instruction and simple classroom applications, it has never been easier to meet the educational needs of students K-2.
19. The New Art and Science of Teaching (More Than Fifty New Instructional Strategies for Academic Success) (The New Art and Science of Teaching Book Series)
Self-Care is critical to a new teacher's well-being. Leading a healthy and happy life is important to the success of all teachers and especially ones new to the field. Use this tool to learn self-care strategies as well as tie management tips!
20. Sparking Student Creativity: Practical Ways to Promote Innovative Thinking and Problem Solving
Teach kids to see learning from a new perspective. Often used to address the needs of Gifted Learners, it is also invaluable to the mainstream class as it promotes creativity in learning while addressing content, standards, and promoting the deliverance of thoughtful ideas and finished products. As today's children become independent learners, they will soon become successful adults of the future.
Special Education
21. A Survival Guide for New Special Educators
Show your special needs students how special they are with tips from this survival guide designed specifically for a new special education teacher. Created by experts in special education training and support, this guide will help create IEPs, customize the curriculum, and ensure that all students receive the education they deserve.
22. The Survival Guide for New Special Education Teachers
Writing conferences make building relationships with students easier than ever. Learn how to incorporate conferences into an already busy schedule with Carl Anderson's K-8 guide to writing conferences. Through conferences, kids will learn the importance of writing while getting the individual help that is so important to every child.
23. A Teacher's Guide to Special Education: A Teacher's Guide to Special Education
With more and more non-English speaking students arriving in our schools, finding ways to help them transition in the language is crucial! In this breakthrough book, teachers will learn how pictures and words work together to create and develop understanding.
24. 10 Critical Components for Success in the Special Education Classroom
From acclaimed educators Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst, Notice and Note is a must-read for all teachers. Discover how the 6 "signposts" allow students to recognize and identify important moments in literature and encourage close reading. Learning to spot and question these signposts will create readers who explore and interpret the text. Before long your students will be experts on how to Notice and Note.
25. Teacher Record Book
Organization is crucial to all new teachers' success. Keep track of attendance, assignment grades, and more with this handy teacher record book.
26. Why Didn't I Learn This in College?: Third Edition
Designed to review the key education concepts learned in college and address the ones we might have missed, Paula Rutherford gives the teacher a user-friendly book that is meant to be opened daily. With student-centered learning as the central focus, it is designed as a reminder of beneficial past strategies as well as new and advanced approaches.
27. Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners
Keeping up with the increasing diversity in classrooms is not an easy task! In order to understand the needs of our gifted students, English Language Learners, and special needs learners can be overwhelming without the right support. Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners provides educators with a variety of activities and strategies to use with these various groups to maximize learning!
Self-Care and Journals for Teachers
28. 180 Days of Self-Care for Busy Educators (A 36-Week Plan of Low-Cost Self-Care for Teachers and Educators)
Self-Care is critical to a new teacher's well-being. Leading a healthy and happy life is important to the success of all teachers and especially ones new to the field. Use this tool to learn self-care strategies as well as tie management tips!
29. The Beginning Teacher's Field Guide: Embarking on Your First Years (Self-Care and Teaching Tips for New Teachers)
Learn to overcome the six emotional phases that ALL new teachers face in this handy field guide. With advice and new teacher support, new teachers will gain the tools to manage the emotional, mental, and physical challenges that teachers encounter in the classroom.
30. Because of a Teacher: Stories of the Past to Inspire the Future of Education
Remember why you became a teacher with these inspirational stories from some of the most renowned teachers today. Their stories will inspire and uplift the exhausted new teacher and the burnt-out veteran with reflections about their early days in the classroom as well as activities and strategies to keep you going!
31. Dear Teacher
Uplifting and inspirational quotes and advice to motivate 100 days of teaching. Celebrate successes both big and small as you read and remember that you are appreciated.
32. See Me After Class: Advice for Teachers by Teachers
Packed with valuable teaching advice for new teachers from those who have lived it, this classic is sure to go on the books for teachers list! Find out what your new teacher training didn't tell you as you peruse the hilarious stories and anecdotes from the teachers who experienced it. Every new teacher will want to keep this one on their desk!
33. Positive Mindset Journal For Teachers: A Year of Happy Thoughts, Inspirational Quotes, and Reflections for a Positive Teaching Experience
Make the first year of teaching a shining light to remember by journaling the memorable moments. Research shows that journaling 10 minutes a day will improve overall mood and happiness. Created by a teacher for teachers, this journal will help bring the "happy" back into your daily habits.
English: Reading and Writing
34. A Teacher's Guide to Writing Conferences: The Classroom Essentials Series
Writing conferences make building relationships with students easier than ever. Learn how to incorporate conferences into an already busy schedule with Carl Anderson's K-8 guide to writing conferences. Through conferences, kids will learn the importance of writing while getting the individual help that is so important to every child.
35. English Made Easy Volume One: A New ESL Approach: Learning English Through Pictures (Free Online Audio)
With more and more non-English speaking students arriving in our schools, finding ways to help them transition in the language is crucial! In this breakthrough book, teachers will learn how pictures and words work together to create and develop understanding.
36. Notice & Note: Strategies for Close Reading
From acclaimed educators Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst, Notice and Note is a must-read for all teachers. Discover how the 6 "signposts" allow students to recognize and identify important moments in literature and encourage close reading. Learning to spot and question these signposts will create readers who explore and interpret the text. Before long your students will be experts on how to Notice and Note.
37. The Writing Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Writers
Learn to match students' writing ability with high-quality instruction with 300 proven strategies. Using the 10 Goals, teachers will be able to set goals for students, develop step-by-step writing strategies, adjust teaching styles to meet individual needs, and more. This practical book will have your students writing like a grade level pro in no time!
38. 6 + 1 Traits of Writing( The Complete Guide( Grades 3 & Up( Everything You Need to Teach and Assess Student Writing with This Powerful Model)[THEORY & PRAC 6 + 1 TRAITS OF][Paperback]
Teach your students to write a flawless five-paragraph essay with the 6+1 Traits of Writing. Show them how concepts like voice, organization, word choice, sentence fluency, and ideas fit together like a puzzle to create an essay every student will be proud of.
39. Breathing New Life into Book Clubs: A Practical Guide for Teachers
New teachers can start the school year without the Book Club Road Block with this practical and helpful guide! Book clubs create a unique culture of reading and there is no better way to get students engaged, but managing book clubs can be tricky. Let Sonia and Dana provide the necessary tools to not only make book clubs work but make them thrive!
Mathematics
40. Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12: 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning
Go from rote memorization of facts to a true understanding of math. Discover how to implement 14 research-based practices that lead to student-centered learning where independent deep-thinking occurs.
41. Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally
Help your elementary and middle school students make sense of math with this reference guide for any skill level. Through hands-on, problem-based activities, students and teachers gain access to Common Core Standards while increasing their mathematical knowledge.
42. Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You'd Had: Ideas and Strategies from Vibrant Classrooms
Learn how to make students LOVE math. From student-centered learning and practical application ideas, this book will help any math teacher take their curriculum & instruction from "boring" and "useless" to "fun" and "creative." Get ready to generalize, hypothesize, and collaborate your way to new perspectives for teaching math!
Social Comprehension
43. Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension
Teaching in an ever-changing world can be frightening! How should new teachers handle topics like race, politics, gender, and sexuality? Is there a boundary line? This thought-provoking book will help teachers guide students as they learn to find their voice and question the world they live in.
44. We Got This.: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be
Teachers often get so caught up in the idea of saving a student's future that we forget about saving them "now." Too often teachers do not know the outside factors affecting students on a daily basis and we base lessons on perceptions rather than reality. We Got This is a reminder to all teachers that sometimes it is more important to LISTEN than to TELL.
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