Books for teachers

I'm working my way back through Learning Teaching by Jim Scrivener, a staple of all CELTA students but one I'd put away when I finished the course. It's very useful, of course!, but I'm curious to know what other books there are to support the ongoing development of teachers in this field.

Are there any books that anyone has read that they would particularly recommend for a growing teacher?

Cool new group. I had to join, even though I'm technically an ESL teacher these days (I live in the USA and work with immigrants here, so it's a second-language, not foreign-language setting).

My favorite professional development book for working with young people has got to be The Skillful Teacher by Jon Saphier. It's a very common-sense look at classroom management, lesson planning, etc., breaking everything down into concepts and techniques so that you can evaluate your own teaching objectively.

My favorite book on progressive methodology is Working with Teaching Methods: What's at Stake? by Earl Stevick.

Parker Palmer's The Courage to Teach was a staple of my graduate curriculum. It's a little touchy-feely-crunchy, but he says a lot of important things along the way.

Welcome to the group! And thanks for the recommendations - I'll have to seek out The Skillful Teacher, as I could do with all the help I can get when it comes to teaching kids and young adults.

Let me add my welcome too. I loved reading Earl Stevick's books when I was doing my Dip. The best writer these days is Scott Thornbury. I particular like his grammar books and 'beyond the sentence'

The best book on TEFL or teaching language generally that I have read is The Lexical Approach by Michael Lewis. I had already been teaching for 10 years or so when I read this book, and now, looking back, I consider that I wasn't really teaching until I started using the thinking and approaches outlined by Lewis. It's a total paradigm shift, and my students have reaped the benefits in a thousand ways.
Highly recommended.

The Lexical approach was the book that most interested me when I did my Dip. Although my wife says 'it's the most boring book I've ever read in my life'. She teaches kids mainly.