*Photos by Gil Epshtein
My aunt in the U.S.A. has said she wants to send me a book. I went looking for recommendations.
Since I couldn’t find such a list I’m starting one myself. I hope placing the recommendations in one place will be helpful to others and will allow me to have a list to look at next time someone wants to send me a book!
Please feel free to add a book recommendation!

Here are four books I own and recommend:
1) The Courage to Teach by Parker J. Palmer
The Courage to Teach
This book deals with our feelings as a teacher. For example, Palmer writes about how we can get hurt by being vulnerable with our students yet how being vulnerable allows us to really connect : “ Unlike many professions, teaching is always done at the dangerous intersection of personal and public life”.
Not light reading but really relevant.
2) Never Work Harder Than Your Students by Robyn R. Jackson
Never Work Harder
The author writes as if you were hashing out the issues with her face to face. Lots of practical advice regarding structuring classroom practices so that the children benefit and the teacher doesn’t collapse from overwork! Very readable.
3) The Classroom of Choice: Giving Students what they need and getting what you want. By Jonathan C. Erwin
Classroom of Choice
The author focuses on the emotional side of the learner. As he points out – who doesn’t know students that could do well academically but don’t because of emotional issues?
Lots of practical things to try out no matter what subject you teach.
4) Teaching Unplugged: Dogme in English Language Teaching By Luke Meddings and Scott Thornbury
http://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/titles/methodology/teaching-unplugged
Just began reading this one. I’m very interested in the theory and am eager to learn more about it!
The following are recommendations by other teachers. I haven’t read any of them YET! Please add your own!

5) Images by Jamie Keddie
Images
Recommended by @harrisonmike – “lots of practical stuff”!
6) We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Talk about Kevin
Recommended by @harrisonmike – “A MUST READ!
7) Five-Minute Activities: A Resource Book of Short Activities by Penny Ur and Andrew Wright
Five-Minute Activities: A Resource Book of Short Activities
Recommended by @CeciELT – An old favorite!
(note: I HAVE read this one though don’t own it! Great!)
8) Bluff your way in Education by Nick Yapp
Recommended by IateflPoland – “for the cynics among us, only 64 pages long, funny too”! “A very humorous, skeptical look at the profession by a teacher who became a Headmaster and went back to being a teacher again”.
Bluff
9) Teaching and Learning in the Language Classroom by Tricia Hedge
Teaching and Learning
Recommended by @nutrich – {Have used } “during DELTA and my MA module on approaches and methods. It’s accessible, not too academic”.
10) Visual Impact Visual Teaching: Using Images to Strengthen Learning by Timothy Gangwer
Visual Impact
I remember getting a warm recommendation for this book and that it is full of practical ideas. Although I duly noted that info I’m embarrassed to say that I did not note who recommended it… Will be happy to add that information!
11) Lexicopoly 1: Reproducible Resources for Language Teachers by Helen O’Brien
Lexicopoly
Helen (@warnhopepark) was kind enough to send me activities in the style that appear in the book. An impressive array of varied activities designed around a theme.
“Lexicopoly is packed with ideas for integrating vocabulary, grammar and language functions through speech.”
The comment-space can be used to add suggestions of your own!