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![Teach Like a PIRATE: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator by [Dave Burgess]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51wzuCZXLcL._SY346_.jpg)
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- Publication dateOctober 22, 2012
- LanguageEnglish
- File size3639 KB
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- ASIN : B009V9RQNU
- Publisher : Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc. (October 22, 2012)
- Publication date : October 22, 2012
- Language : English
- File size : 3639 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 200 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #131,636 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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Dave Burgess is the New York Times Best-Selling author of Teach Like A PIRATE: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator and co-author of P is for PIRATE: Inspirational ABC's for Educators. He is a highly sought after professional development speaker well known for his creative, entertaining, and outrageously energetic style. His workshops, seminars, and keynotes not only motivate and inspire teachers, but also help them to develop practical ways to become more creative and engaging in the classroom. Dave empowers teachers to embrace the mighty purpose of being an educator and sparks them to design classes that are life-changing experiences for students.
As a teacher at West Hills High School in San Diego, he was the 2001 and 2012 Golden Apple recipient and the 2007/2008 Teacher of the Year. He was voted a faculty standout for seventeen consecutive years in categories such as: Most Entertaining, Most Energetic, and Most Dramatic. At a ceremony in Washington D.C., the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences awarded him the 2014 BAMMY for Secondary School Teacher of the Year.
He specializes in teaching hard-to-reach, hard-to-motivate students with techniques that incorporate showmanship and creativity.
For information about booking Dave to speak, to sign-up for his email list, or to read his blog, visit http://daveburgess.com.
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His middle section on "hooks" WAS interesting and there were a few things I had not thought of much before, so I will probably use a few ideas from there. But the first section and the third section of the book contains too much "fluff." I believe the book could have been much better with those sections shortened and the middle section expanded (some hooks have no examples given at all, and others have some examples but they are not as specific as they could be to truly illustrate the identified "hook"). In other words, some interesting theory, but let's hear more about how it was truly applied. Perhaps part one was so long because otherwise the book would have been too short? While I was reading I kept thinking to myself, "Okay, okay, where is the meat?" THE PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS DON'T ARRIVE IN THE BOOK UNTIL OVER HALFWAY THROUGH! You may find yourself, as I did, thinking, "Okay, any minute now I'm going to get a great example of his methods. Any page now. Surely it will be in a few more pages. . . "
I think it would have been great if Dave would have collaborated with an elementary school teacher who could have given a perspective of how some of the hooks could work in primary and intermediate grades. Or at least he ought to expand on his specific examples, or give multiple examples. It's often easy to explain how a particular hook could work in ONE case, how about a few others? While you can certainly adapt Dave's hooks from his high school social studies classes to elementary classes, the book would be stronger with that additional perspective.
If you are a teacher who has a hard time getting motivated for your school year, then maybe the first and third sections will pump you up. But if you are excited about your school year and are just looking for some fresh ideas, only about a third of this short book is "meat," and while portions are tasty, THE BOOK IS OVERPRICED FOR THE CONTENT YOU GET. If I could get a second edition with an expanded part two and a much more abbreviated part one and three, I would give this book a second shot.
Many teachers are pressured by the demands of teaching and feel creativity is something that other people have. Teach Like a Pirate helps teachers realize anyone can be creative--if they tune into the right frequency.
Dave notes that creativity is hard work--when someone says "It's easy for you. You're creative," it dismisses that hard work. Anyone can Teach Like a Pirate. He urges people to "Commit, start working. Then be open."
Some helpful suggestions: Get outside the classroom. Build the relationships. Be unconventional. Address the elephant in the room--that classes sometimes don't serve students, but this one will. Build relationships with and among students. Be creative, have a life, engage in your hobbies. Don't be a perfectionist. Ignore negativity. It all makes you a better teacher.
Dave applies so many of the great creativity ideas to teaching. This is what makes this book special. In this book, I hear the voices of the great motivators, writers, and creative thinkers--tailored to the classroom. Too many "teaching books" lose me at dry abbreviations and pedagogy pontifications. Teach Like a Pirate is none of that--it's "Have fun. Be creative. Inspire." We won't know if we've done well for generations--our students will be force multipliers. That's the way teaching should be.
"Provide an uncommon experience for your students and they will reward you with an uncommon effort and attitude," says Dave Burgess.
If you feel that you are missing the opportunity to be creative, read this book and find others developing their creativity.
If you are already teaching creatively, read this book, and know that you are not alone--join your peers with the Teach Like a Pirate hashtag on Twitter (#TLAP), and fly your own Jolly Roger high.
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