The Essential Reading List for Innovative English Teachers

"To teach is to learn twice." — Joseph Joubert

Reading helps you improve your mood and mindset. It also helps you learn new things and expands your knowledge. When you read, you are transported to another world; even a dream scenario of fun and relevant educational classrooms.

Relax, de-stress, and expand your knowledge. I encourage you to pick up a book- here are a few of my suggestions that are great for all teachers.

The Infographic Guide to Grammar

Save your time and energy on creating cool “attention grabbing” grammar visuals for your students by picking up this book instead. This book offers 50 infographics to break down complicated English grammar rules into clear and easy-to-understand terms. The Infographic Guide to Grammar is a book that teaches English grammar in a fun and easy way using colourful infographics. It covers everything from basic sentence structure to the parts of speech to common mistakes.

Teachers Inspiring Teachers

There are some days when we, as educators, need to dig deep to gain motivation (it is a norm for all fields). This book helps push you through each day for an entire year. It contains motivational insights, and experiences to give you that much needed boost and reminder that you are not alone in the ongoing struggles of teaching. Once done, I highly recommend giving it to another teacher as a gift. Spread the joy.

The English Teachers Companion: A Complete Guide to Classroom, Curriculum, and the Profession

This book provides practical methods for teaching English to a new generation of students, which is a great companion with the next book suggestion. It is anchored in the Common Core State Standards and includes ideas for working with ELLs, struggling readers, and technology. It provides practical and thoughtful methods for meeting standards in all necessary skills. In addition, it makes assessment a priority, not only to find out what students know but to help practitioners improve.

Teaching in the Online Classroom

After going online for many schools, and now with the hope that many courses are widely accepted to be blended, or fully online, this book helps build teaching skills adaptable to an online classroom. It includes real-life teaching moments, insights from experts, and a community of dedicated teachers. The book can help teachers bridge distances to connect with students, cultivate a strong classroom culture, manage behaviour and distraction, and more.

How to Teach Speaking

Want more methodological approaches and considerations on theory in speaking skills? This book delivers theoretical and practical approaches. It's super easy to read and understand, and it covers a wide range of topics. The first few chapters give you a solid foundation in the theory behind speaking English, and then the later chapters show you how to apply that knowledge in real-world situations.

The Art of Public Speaking

The Art of Public Speaking is a customisable resource for experienced and novice instructors, with teaching aids and confidence-building support. This book is perfectly coordinated with Connect, McGraw-Hill Education's groundbreaking online program, and it provides a proven set of teaching and learning tools that are unmatched by any other public speaking book.

Practical English Usage

Now, this book is a common factor for English educators, especially for most CELTA instructors; it’s one of their required books. The reason being is that the guide helps English teachers to build confidence and teach grammar effectively. It covers common grammatical issues, provides advice on how to address problems, and includes differences between British and American English. This book improves students' grammar without sacrificing other subjects. It also clarifies weird English grammar exceptions (rule breakers), which benefits all English speakers.

As teachers, we are constantly learning and gaining insight to guide and teach. It’s a drive that many educators can’t resist. So let’s read!

Written by: Marcia Elizabeth Perales

Editor: Aziza Khanom

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