I’ve got quite a stack of books to read this summer.
After the year I’ve had, I need to find some answers about what makes these kids tick, and what I can do better next year to deal with it. (We are not getting good reports about the fourth graders coming up. Very low, immature and lazy. Can anyone really be more immature and lazy than this class? I don’t want to know.) I am most looking forward to reading (and implementing) QAR Now, Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire , Never Work Harder Than Your Students, Generation Me and The Narcissism Epidemic. I think I’ll be able to get through them all, if I throw some fiction in between.
My Summer Reading Pile
Check back for my notes on each! 
How to talk so kids can learn is a great book. It really changed the way I approach different situations. It’s kinda like how they say babies have a language all their own. Kids do too. They perceive things differently than you and I. It’s helped not only with the kids, but the “adults” that I deal with as well.
That’s one that I’ve had for years but never read. Maybe I should start with that one. I already know from Ruby Payne that I use the “parent voice” instead of the “adult voice”, but that is my personality.
I really need to find a book like “How To Talk So Parents Don’t Scream at You.”. Maybe this book will help with that, too!
[...] 6, 2009 by institutrice Not doing so well with my summer reading pile. I’ve read quite a few fiction books, including some children’s novels. However, I have [...]