Books about First Year Teachers

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Mansfield University Library Materials on
First Year Teachers & Teacher Biographies

Prepared by Frances Garrison – Rev. Oct 2, 2007

Books about the first year of teaching:

Beyond student teaching / Ellen L. Kronowitz.
LB2844.1.N4 K76 1991

Don't smile until Christmas; accounts of the first year of teaching. (c 1970)
LB2844.1.N4 R95

Educating Esmé: diary of a teacher's first year / Esmé Raji Codell.
LB2844.1.N4 C63 2001

The first year of teaching: real world stories from America's teachers / edited by Pearl Rock Kane
LB2844.1.N4 F56 1991

First-year teacher : a case study / Robert V. Bullough, Jr.
LB2844.1.N4 B85 1989

Ms Moffett’s first year: becoming a teacher in America / Abby Goodnough
LC5133.N4 G66 2004

My first year as a teacher / Pearl Rock Kane
LB 2844 .1 .N4 F56 1996

The roller coaster year: essays by and for beginning teachers / editor, Kevin Ryan.
LB2844.1.N4 R65 1992

Stories of beginning teachers : first-year challenges and beyond / Alysia D. Roehrig, Michael Pressley, Denise A. Talotta
LB2844.1.N4 R62 2002

Up the down staircase / Bel Kaufman. (c1964)
PS3521.A722 U6

Videos about the first year of teaching:

The first year
Documents the challenges and rewards for five first year teachers in the Los Angeles School District (80 min.).
Video Cassette LB2844.1.N4 F54 2001

First year teachers / by John Merrow
Variant Title: So where's my apple?
Follows three rookie teachers in Baltimore County through their first year in the classroom (45 min.).
Video Cassette LB2844.1.N4 F57 1990

Teachers’ biographies (not necessarily the first year):

Children learning : a teacher's classroom diary / Paula Polk Lillard (c 1980).
LB1033 .L46

Escalante : the best teacher in America / Jay Mathews.
LD7501.L73 M37 1988

The essential 55 / Ron Clark
LB 1025.3 .C534 2003

Going to kindergarten: a year with an outstanding teacher / Donald J. Richgels.
LB 1169 .R48 2003

The good preschool teacher : six teachers reflect on their lives / William Ayers
LB1775.5 .A97 1989

Growing minds : on becoming a teacher / Herbert Kohl
LA2317.K64 A33 1984

Holler if you hear me: The education of a teacher and his students / Gregory Michie
LC 4093 .C49 M53 1999

Losing my faculties : a teacher’s story / Brendan Halpin
LA2301 .H35 2003

No place but here : a teacher's vocation in a rural community / Garret Keizer.
LA2317.K335 A3 1988

Powerful classroom stories from accomplished teachers / Adrienne Mack-Kirschner
LB 1025.3 .M334 2004

Our last term: a teacher's diary / Lucille G. Natkins.
LA222 .N34 1986

Small victories: the real world of a teacher, her students, and their high school / Samuel G. Freedman.
LD7501.N525 F74 1990

Somebody else’s kids / Torey L. Hayden
LB 1028.8 .H39 1981

Tales out of school: a teacher's candid account from the front lines of the American high school today / Patrick Welsh
LD7501.A4498 W45 1986

Teacher man : a memoir / Frank McCourt
LA2317.M36 A3 2005

Teachers' stories: from personal narrative to professional insight / Mary Renck Jalongo, Joan P. Isenberg
LB1029.B55 J35 1995

The teacher's voice: a sense of who we are / Ray Raphael.
LA2311 .R36 1985

Under running laughter: notes from a renegade classroom / Quincy Howe, Jr.
LC4093.N5 H69 1991