Teach like a pirate

Yo ho! Yo ho! It's a pirate's life for me. What qualifies as treasure to teachers? Student engagement? Student learning? Student’s remembering what we’ve taught? If student engagement and learnin

There have been so many wonderful book study groups happening this summer, but we were gone for many of them and it just seems like I am now starting to get caught up on all of these fabulous books! I'm starting a little series over the next few weeks to review my favorite take-aways from all of them and calling it What I'm Reading Wednesday! This Week's Book: Teach Like a PIRATE by Dave Burgess When it comes to books for teaching, I *love* reading books about practical, hands-on ways to…

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Tweet Welcome to part one of Teach Like a Pirate Book Study! It is not to late to join in, so if you are looking for some inspiration for your teaching, grab a copy of the book and join our discussion! Feel free to leave your discussion in the comments or if you have a blog and want to do a post about it, leave a link in the comments. Teach Like a Pirate Here is the posting schedule July 12 Passion and Immersion July 19 Rapport and Ask and Analyze July 26 Transformation and Enthusiasm August…

Learning how to engage students is one of the biggest challenges for educators today. There is so much noise to cut through just to be heard much less teach tomorrow’s generation. You can teach like a pirate! Click here to learn how! #teaching | shakeuplearning.com

With International Talk Like a Pirate Day just around the corner (September 19th), we decided to bring a bit of pirate fun to our classroom this year. One question my kids wanted to know was,

Stand and Deliver What? Teachers are professional speakers? Come to think of it, we are. I find it fascinating that I can be so at ease...

UPDATE! I updated the google site that goes with this book study to be more user friendly with a retro vibe! Feel free to make a copy or use this one for your book study! Retro Teach Like a Pirate Book Study Site Retro Bookmarks Retro Walk the Plank Questions The first huge professional development I led for my teachers in the my new gig as Curriculum Leader was starting a book club. My amazing admin invested in a book for every teacher and gave their full support by participating in the…

Passion. Enthusiasm. Excitement. The unexpected.If you haven't read Dave Burgess's book "Teach Like a PIRATE", you're missing out on the inspiration and

A blog for teachers to find example questions and ideas for different reading skills and strategies for over 100 different picture books.