Teach Like a PIRATE: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator Kindle Edition

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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
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 200 pages
Lending ‏ : ‎ Enabled

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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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will quinn

motivational speech and specifics not applicable

Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2018

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I, like many others, bought this book based on word of mouth and positive reviews. The book is written as a motivational speech. Multiple times the author mentions how he dislikes books that teach the general idea and not how to implement that idea. I kept waiting for the “how to” section that could spread across disciplines. There is some probing questions, but most wouldn’t apply to a math classroom or an elementary teacher teaching multiple lessons a day.

If you are an ELA, foreign language, or history teacher this book may be helpful, but as a math teacher I didn’t get much out of it.

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Karma Adamik

A few good ideas, but mostly just self-promotion for Dave Burgess

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2018

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A few good ideas, but mostly just self-promotion for Dave Burgess. A much better book is The Innovator's Mindset by George Couros.

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Tiffany Persechini

I loved the audio format of this book

Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2019

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I bought this book a while back and had been making my way through it a bit slowly. I had heard of the book many times and I liked what I read, but I’ll admit that I wasn’t rushing to finish it. However, once I learned of the audio version I jumped at the chance to try again. I have a long commute to work and love audio books. I LOVED this format of Teach Like a Pirate, especially with Dave Burgess reading the book. I felt like I was sitting in the audience of a high energy presentation. I highly recommend listening to this book. It made such a difference to me to be able to hear the emphasis, enthusiasm, and excitement infused throughout. When I was reading the text version, I didn’t get the same sense of enthusiasm and energy that came through loud and clear in the audio version. As an elementary teacher, there are some parts that don’t seem to apply, however, there are still many great ideas. I think the biggest take away for me was the inspiration to take a closer look at my practices as a teacher and to begin asking myself some questions that will help me develop more memorable lessons for my students. I feel a renewed energy for teaching. Thank you, Dave Burgess.

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Josue Pruneda

Insightful and true; Teach Like a PIRATE unlocks your full creative potential for beginners and veterans

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2018

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This 5-star book is an amazing tool to implement in your classroom. The system (PIRATE) ABurgess sets up and the discussion of how to unlock your creative potential is just incredible.. Burgess has inspired me to learn a lot more about neuropsychology, how learning takes place in the brain, and education overall. I have applied several of his recommendations to retesters in biology (wholesome and passionate teaching with outside of the box thinking) and I've received lots of positive results.. engagement and classroom culture is much better.. etc
Overall, very wonderful reading. Addressed my fear of not being a perfect teacher in my 2nd year, and has encouraged me to seek after excellence. Recommend this book to brand new teachers and those who are burned out or bummed out by the education system.. Define your passions! Rekindle the flame; the reason why you joined education!! Shape better future adults!

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Sue Cagley

Inspiring, Challenging, Valuable Reading

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2020

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After hearing Burgess in a webinar through DitchThatTextbook’s Matt Miller, I knew this book would be worth the time to investigate. His ideas can be applied across multiple levels and disciplines. Not all of his ideas would work for those of us who do not teach multiple sections of the same course or have one classroom exclusively for our use, but the principles of teaching with passion and enthusiasm can be used anywhere! The value of this book is not in the new ideas presented, but rather it is in the reminder of the role the teacher plays to make or break a subject area.

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MY Daughter the Teacher

Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2021

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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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Lily

Definetly Worth a Read

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2018

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This is a very interesting book about making interesting lesson plans. The book contains a lot of lesson starter ideas that can be used to make unique lessons that might appeal to students.
It talks a lot about creativity and has some very honest advice about how to stay motivated when teaching.
I really enjoyed it and would recommend it to all teachers.

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Rebekah Heiner

Meh.

Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2020

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This book comes highly recommended...but as a student teacher and someone who is just now entering my first teacher position in two months, I just don’t think it is aimed for beginning teachers. It seems to cater more to the burnt-out teachers who have lost sight of why they became a teacher in the first place. The theories and ideas presented are only discussed superficially with no real concrete examples of how to use the information. I’ll keep it on my shelf and pull it back out in several years when I just need an inspirational pep talk...as that’s kind of what it seems to be.

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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

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 20, 2016

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Very interesting book - well worth a read

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