This post was inspired by the following posts:
Your Summer Reading List and Professional Development Meme

Here’s a list of the books I’ll be reading this summer for Professional Development on my own.

1. Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative by Ken Robinson-

2. The Passionate Teacher by Robert L. Fried

3. The Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam

4. Thinking Visually by Oliver Caviglioli and Ian Harris

5. Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe

6. Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design by Carol Ann Tomlinson and Jay McTighe

7.Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds

I will be reading the Understanding by Design books to see how they fit into my school’s adoption of SIOP (Structured Instructon Observation Protocol) http://www.siopinstitute.net/. I will be reading Presentation Zen, Thinking Visually and The Back of the Napkin to improve my presentation and graphic design skills for the classroom.

Also during the summer I hope to experiment more with the Wii Board project to see how it can be used in my classroom in the fall.