 | Looking in Classrooms (10th Edition) by Thomas L. Good
Buy new: $84.73 / Used from: $60.90 This is a college text, so it is not the most readable book on the list. However, the authors are experts in the field and they review much of the research on teaching. It should be on every teacher's book shelf.
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 | There Are No Shortcuts by Rafe Esquith
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.99 This is a well-written look at day-to-day work by a dedicated teacher. The characters are composites, so this is a fictional account, but it will still give the novice a look at what teaching is like.
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 | The First Days Of School: How To Be An Effective Teacher by Harry K. Wong
Buy used from: $7.11 This is a nuts and bolts how-to on teaching. It does not offer general principles of teaching to guide the teacher's work, but it does offer specific "tricks of the trade."
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 | The Morningside Model of Generative Instruction: What It Means to Leave No Child Behind by Ph.D. Kent Johnson
Buy used from: $18.00 Morningside Academy is a private school in Seattle for underachieving students. They guarantee that the students will gain two grade levels in one year. Their methods are worth studying.
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 | Fred Jones Tools for Teaching: Discipline, Instruction, Motivation by Fredric H. Jones
Buy new: $19.11 / Used from: $18.96 This book offers many practical, specific suggestions, particularly in the area of classroom management.
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 | Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children by Todd R. Risley
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $13.02 This book may seem inappropriate for this list, since it doesn't relate directly to classroom teaching. But the book demonstrates the incredible impact of the early home environment on school progress. One implication is that how teachers talk to their students may have a powerful effect on their progress.
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 | Teacher Quality, Teaching Quality, and School Improvement by Leslie S. Kaplan
Buy used from: $10.16 This little book makes the case for the idea that it is what teachers DO that matters most, and that teachers must know not only the subject they teach, but how to teach it.
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