The Chartered College of Teaching team have collated their varied summer reading recommendations for teachers, headteachers, teaching assistants and all educators.
Together, we have a range of books to share with you including books covering inclusivity and diversity, books for mentors, books on education policy, books for early career teachers and more!
1. Understanding and Reducing Anxiety in the Primary School: Theory and Practice for Building a Compassionate Culture for All Educators by Shirley Clarke, Angela Evans and Kate Moss
This book is a new publication which is a great includes practical strategies for primary issues including panic attacks and school refuser children.
2. Improving Education Policy Together: How It’s Made, Implemented, and Can Be Done Better by Nansi Ellis and Gareth Conyard
This book is described by Prof. Dame Alison Peacock as having ‘great insights’ and being published with ‘excellent timing’.
3. A Little Guide for Teachers: Thriving in Your First Years of Teaching by Yamina Bibi
This book is described as ‘little in size but BIG on all the support and inspiration you need to navigate your day-to-day life as a teacher.’
Supporting teacher to take charge of a classroom for the first time, build new relationships and plan for lessons.
4. Equitable Education: What everyone in education should know about closing the attainment gap by Sameena Choudry
Relevant for trainees, teachers and school leaders, this book aims to provide an in-depth understanding of the complex issues facing different groups of disadvantaged pupils, with suggestions of practical strategies we can implement in our classrooms and in our schools.
5. What every teacher needs to know: How to embed evidence-informed teaching and learning in your school by Jade Pearce
Easy to access, bitesize summaries of 20 key research papers, with practical suggestions and implications for classroom practice and leadership from one of our Fellows, Jade Pearce.
6. The Early Career Framework Handbook by the Chartered College of Teaching
Learn more about evidence-informed pedagogy and practice in our book: The Early Career Framework Handbook. Invaluable resource for early career teachers and their mentors.
There is a Sage Publishing discount for members too!
7. Why learning fails (and what to do about it) by Alex Quigley
Alex Quigley proposes eight common reasons why learning frequently fails, and offers practical examples, research and evidence to tackle these in the classroom.
Read alongside working on your Development of Teaching Practice Award.
8. Smashing glass ceilings: Empowering women in education by Kate Jones
Advice on leadership progression as well as alternative options for women leading in education; includes advice for male colleagues so they too can help.
Read alongside working on your Chartered Teacher Status.
9. Reading Lessons: The books we read at school, the conversations they spark and why they matter by Carol Atherton
This book takes fresh look at these novels, plays and poems in our curriculum, revealing how they have shaped our beliefs, our values, and how we interact as a society. Atherton emphasises the vital, undervalued role a teacher plays in teaching these texts and illustrates how essential reading is for developing our empathy, making a passionate case for the enduring power of literature.
10. Teaching One-Pagers: Evidence-informed summaries for busy educational professionals by Jamie Clark
One-pagers are A4-sized summaries that share important evidence-informed ideas about effective teaching. A useful resource for time-poor teachers, especially at the beginning of the academic year.
Read alongside working on your Certificate in Evidence-Informed Practice.
11. What teachers need to know about memory by Jonathan Firth and Nasima Riazat
An accessible read looking at memory and its role in teaching and learning, with plenty of practical suggestions to take into the classroom.
Excellent reading while working on your Certificate in Evidence-Informed Practice.