The recently concluded TCCTA Dual Credit Workshops produced a number of collaborations among practitioners at the high school and college level. One of their projects was to assemble a reading list of books—titles that may or may not have a direct bearing on education.
If you ever have any doubt that teachers are a diverse and interesting breed, please have a look at the list below.
Two programs were offered specifically for Dual Credit faculty both at the high schools and those faculty and program coordinators at the college. Supported by the Educate Texas Fund of Communities Foundation of Texas, this program is created by the participants themselves. Like the Great Teaching Round-Up, the staff’s major role is facilitation. The goals of the seminar include: Sharing methods and techniques, celebrating good teaching, creative, realistic problem solving, exploration of new ideas, serious introspection, self-appraisal, and professional and personal renewal.
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Below is the reading list, compiled by the participants.
Smith / Ramirez / Schmidt
Technical Drawing 101
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Karen Salmansohn
How to Be Happy, Dammit: A Cynic's Guide to Spiritual Happiness
Jack Tapper
The Outpost
Anthony Weston
A Rulebook for Arguments
bell hooks
Teaching to Transgress
W. H. Auden
Musee des Beaux Arts
Margaret Atwood
Blind Assassin
Jan Hargrave
Let Me See Your Body Talk
Clifford Bennett
A Political Cartoon History of the United States
Spencer Johnson
One Minute Teacher
Leo Buscaglia
Living, Loving, and Learning
Tom Rath
How Full is Your Bucket?
Stephen King
On Writing
Alan November
Web Literacy for Educators
Graff & Birkenstein
They Say, I Say
Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers: The Story of Success
Jon Gordon
The Carpenter: A Story About the Greatest Success Strategies of All
Christopher McDougall
Born to Run
WalcottLynch.com
Steps For Better Thinking
Susan Cain
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
Tyrese Gibson
How to Get Out of Your Own Way
Carol Dweck
The New Psychology of Success
Carter G. Woodson
Miseducation of the Negro
Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Erik Larson
Isaac’s Storm
Laura Hillenbrand
Unbroken
Ryan Sansome
Dopeless Hope Fiend: A Recovering Addict’s Manifesto
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Erik Larson
The Devil in White City
Witold Rybczynski
A Clearing in the Distance
Dr. Suess
Oh The Places You’ll Go
Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge
Franklin Covey
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Harper Lee
To Kill A Mockingbird
Stieg Larsson
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Jeff Anderson
10 Things Every Writer Should Know
Jack London
The Science Fiction Stories
Doug Lemov
Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques That Put Students on the Path to College
Dinesh D’Souza
America: Imagine a World without Her
Toni Morrison
God Help The Child
Lorraine Hasberry
A Raisin in the Sun
Cupcake Brown
A Piece of Cake
Daniel Keyes
Flowers for Algernon
Kimberly & James Dean
Pete the Cat’s Groovy Guide to Life
Jorge Amado
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Alain-Fournier
Le Grand Meaulnes (The Wanderer)
William Golding
Lord of the Flies
Mario Puzo
The Godfather
Machiavelli
The Prince
Robert F. Durden
The Self-Inflicted Wound: Southern Politics in the 19th Century
Thomas Foster
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
John Trimble, Ph.D.
Writing with Style
Matt Ridley
Nature v. Nurture
John Medina
Brain Rules
Shawn Achor
The Happiness Advantage
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Peter Walsh
It’s All Just Too Much
Katherine Dunn
Geek Core
Ed Colombo
Rereading America