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Teach Like a PIRATE: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator by [Dave Burgess]

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Based on Dave Burgess's popular "Outrageous Teaching" and "Teach Like a PIRATE" seminars, this book offers inspiration, practical techniques, and innovative ideas that will help you to increase student engagement, boost your creativity, and transform your life as an educator. You'll learn how to: • Tap into and dramatically increase your passion as a teacher • Develop outrageously engaging lessons that draw students in like a magnet • Establish rapport and a sense of camaraderie in your classroom • Transform your class into a life-changing experience for your students This groundbreaking inspirational manifesto contains over 30 hooks specially designed to captivate your class and 170 brainstorming questions that will skyrocket your creativity. Once you learn the Teach Like a PIRATE system, you'll never look at your role as an educator the same again.

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I have been traveling across the country delivering my passionate and inspirational message about how to improve education for both students and teachers. This book is based on the complete Teach Like a PIRATE system that I have developed to help teachers become wildly engaging in the classroom and more fulfilled in their profession. It not only includes the entire Teach like a PIRATE system that has left audiences of educators unbelievably fired up, motivated, and ready to tackle the world, but also includes a comprehensive section on exactly how to craft and design lessons that are irresistible to students. The book includes over 30 hooks and 170 brainstorming questions that have been specially designed to skyrocket your creativity. The final section of the book is an uplifting guide created to help you overcome all of the obstacles and resistance that you will face on your voyage. I can't tell you how many teachers have come up after my presentations and said, "You should write a book." Well, here it is! --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Dave Burgess is a highly sought after professional development speaker well known for his creative, entertaining, and outrageously energetic style. His workshops, seminars, and keynotes inspire teachers and help them develop practical ways to become more creative and engaging in the classroom. He is an award-winning U.S. History teacher at West Hills High School in San Diego, California, where he has taught for sixteen years. He specializes in teaching hard-to-reach, hard-to-motivate students with techniques that incorporate showmanship and creativity. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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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
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 200 pages

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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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BigSur

Don't believe the hype. Just OK, especially for the price.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 15, 2013

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This review may not be popular, but it is honest. I was disappointed and underwhelmed overall with this book. I have taught elementary school for over 20 years and am passionate about what I do, and I'm always looking for new ideas to mix things up, and when I caught wind of this book I thought, why not? So many positive reviews, let's give it a shot. First of all, I would love for any of my kids to be in Dave's class, he is obviously a passionate and creative teacher! However, I felt like this book spent way too much time on generalities and not enough on specifics, and it really reads like a self-help book for fragile and discouraged teachers. Plus, much of his advice is pretty obvious--you should be passionate? Of course. You should have rapport with your students? Isn't that obvious? You should be enthusiastic? I HOPE SO!

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.

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Leah Thompson

Hooked me right away

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This book hooked me in right away. I feel very validated to see many of the teaching methods I’ve naturally employed are among Burgess’ suggestions. I guess I was on the right track. This book inspires me to get even more creative and enthusiastic in my teaching. I can’t way to try many of his ideas!

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MY Daughter the Teacher

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I had a request from my daughter for this book back in the summer and forgot about it until she and her children went on vacation and came back to pipes burst from tree roots in her bathroom and a flooded nasty mess. School was beginning and so many of her things were ruined then the worst hit when she and my granddaughter both contracted Covid-19. They were living in a suite at a hotel not far from us but we were not allowed to help her and my grandson was tested 3 times before he was allowed to stay with us not having it. I have an immune disorder and they were worried about me. Anyway my granddaughter had a mild case but my daughter was very very ill. We were frightened and she is a 7th & 8th grade Science teacher who goes above the norm to help her students. So I remembered and immediately ordered this book so she could plan great things for her students and encourage her to fight. After she finally received the infusion she began to turn for the better and with the encouragement of a great support system with her principal and fellow teachers not forgetting her students she went back upon release and the book will always be a favorite.

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P. Jensen

O e of yhe best books for teachers and students

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 13, 2022

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I loved the way this book pressnted old, new, conssrvative and challenging new teaching practices for tea hers in a fun and understandable way.

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Laura B.

This book offers many great ideas

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 25, 2022

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Picked this book for the presentation in my pedagogy studies. Didn't expect it to be so inspiring! Gave me a lot of new ideas how to lead my classes, how to engage students and motivate them.

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Dawn Casey Rowe

Develop Your Sea Legs--Don't Walk the Plank!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 25, 2013

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Dave Burgess' Teach Like a Pirate is a phenomena. I'm on my second read. Dave does workshops, runs Twitter chats, and hangs the Jolly Roger over the sea of creativity. I rarely read books about teaching. Thankfully, Dave admitted "the best books about teaching are rarely in the education section." That was my hook.

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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hanaz

Very helpful and comforting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 11, 2018

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As someone who left teacher training part way through due to things like being a perfectionist, hearing negativity from colleagues and from the media, I am so glad to have come across this book. There are great checklists you can use to make lessons more engaging/ varied and useful advice for teachers at any stage. I hope to go back and try again soon (partly thanks to this book). Great job Dave!

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Disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 10, 2020

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I bought it as it was high on a teachers reading list. Maybe if you teach History you can grab a couple of costume ideas other than that unfortunately I didn’t get much from it.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 3, 2017

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Excellent quality and fast delivery.

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Paul T

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Very interesting book - well worth a read

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Great for all teachers and leaders

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 2, 2016

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A really easy read with some great messages for all teachers,young and old. I read straight off in one go but will dip back in from time to time.

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