14 Top teaching books like Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) by Alfie Kohn

Cover of Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) by Alfie Kohn

Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)

By: Alfie Kohn

4.10

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

The moment is right for critical reflection on what has been assumed to be a core part of schooling…

If you liked the teaching plot in Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) by Alfie Kohn , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire, Donaldo Macedo, Myra Bergman Ramos, None

1. Pedagogy of the Oppressed

By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None

4.30

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more

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  • academic
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • education
"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Cover of Specifications Grading by Linda B. Nilson

2. Specifications Grading

By: Linda B. Nilson

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In her latest book Linda Nilson puts forward an innovative but practical and tested approach to gra… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
  • academic
Cover of Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do about It by Eric Jensen

3. Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do about It

By: Eric Jensen

3.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eric Jensen, author of Teaching with the Brain in Mind, examines how poverty hurts children, famili… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • school
  • education
Cover of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Lynn Hammond

4. Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

By: Zaretta Lynn Hammond

4.27

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

A bold, brain-based teaching approach to culturally responsive instruction To close the achievement… read more

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  • school
  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • education
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5. How Children Learn

By: John C. Holt

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

This enduring classic of educational thought offers teachers and parents deep, original insight int… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education

6. Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

By: bell hooks

3.97

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

Ten years ago, bell hooks astonished readers with Teachingto Transgress: Education as the Practice … read more

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7. Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School (Hack Learning Series Book 3)

By: Starr Sackstein

3.70

Format: 368 pages,

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8. What the Best College Teachers Do

By: Ken Bain

2.83

Format: 24 pages,

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9. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

By: bell hooks

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more

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10. Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom

By: Pete Hall , None

3.29

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

This essential resource explores how trauma disrupts learning and explains how to create a safe spa… read more

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11. Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms

By: Joe Feldman

4.21

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

"Joe Feldman shows us how we can use grading to help students become the leaders of their own learn… read more

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  • school
  • teaching
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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Cover of Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation (Volume 42) (American Crossroads) by Matthew F. Delmont

12. Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation (Volume 42) (American Crossroads)

By: Matthew F. Delmont

4.10

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In the decades after the landmark  Brown v. Board of Education  Supreme Court decision, busing to a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • education
Cover of Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12: 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning (Corwin Mathematics Series) by Peter Liljedahl

13. Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12: 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning (Corwin Mathematics Series)

By: Peter Liljedahl

4.57

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Sparked by observing teachers struggle to implement rich mathematics tasks to engage students in de… read more

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  • academia
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  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • education
Cover of Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) by Alfie Kohn

14. Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)

By: Alfie Kohn

4.10

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

The moment is right for critical reflection on what has been assumed to be a core part of schooling… read more

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  • academia
  • school
  • teaching
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • education
  • audiobook
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15. Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities

By: John Warner

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An important challenge to what currently masquerades as conventional wisdom regarding the teaching … read more

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  • academia
  • school
  • teaching
  • academic
  • nonfiction
  • education
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16. Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education

By: Alex Shevrin Venet

4.56

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Trauma-informed initiatives tend to focus on the challenging behaviors of students and ascribe them… read more

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  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • education
Cover of Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It by James M. Lang

17. Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It

By: James M. Lang

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Keeping students focused can be difficult in a world filled with distractions—which is why a renown… read more

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  • teaching
  • academic
  • nonfiction
  • education
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Cover of Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes by Flower Darby

18. Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes

By: Flower Darby

4.14

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Find out how to apply learning science in online classes The concept of small teaching is simple: … read more

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  • academic
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook
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19. The New College Classroom

By: Cathy N. Davidson

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

What the latest science of learning tells us about inspiring, effective, and inclusive teaching at … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
  • academic
Cover of Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade, and How to Stop by Jesse Stommel

20. Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade, and How to Stop

By: Jesse Stommel

4.07

Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition

Grades and assessment are elephants in almost every room where discussions of education are underwa… read more

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Cover of Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) by Kelly A. Hogan

21. Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)

By: Kelly A. Hogan

4.53

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Award-winning teachers offer practical tips for addressing inequities in the college classroom and … read more

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7 Top school books like Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) by Alfie Kohn

Transform Your Habits

Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do about It

Eric Jensen

3.11

Transform Your Habits

Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

Zaretta Lynn Hammond

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms

Joe Feldman

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12: 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning (Corwin Mathematics Series)

Peter Liljedahl

4.57

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13 must-read nonfiction books like Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) by Kelly A. Hogan

Transform Your Habits

Meaty

Samantha Irby , None

3.54

Transform Your Habits

Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide

Hal Higdon

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices

Noah Whiteman

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Inciting Joy: Essays

Ross Gay

4.16

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