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Teach Like a PIRATE
Teach Like a PIRATE
Personal Take Away
Teach Like a Pirate was an inspirational book about making your teaching student worthy. Student worthy means that you are engaging students in a way that is entertaining. You are incorporating the art, music, drama, hooks, and maybe even dressing up to get your students attention. Making sure that you are not making your students sit all day or for long periods of time lecturing or doing seat work. How can you change your teaching? Can you move your lesson outside? Incorporate a simulation that will hook students, or maybe you take your classroom back in time by decorating it in a time period that is not current. These are only some of the amazing and inspirational ideas that Dave Burgess gives to you through the Teach Like a Pirate journey!
This book gets a five star rating for being inspirational and inspiring teachers to put effort into student engagement. There are amazing ideas on how to get your students engaged in fun and creative ways. Dave Burgess gives examples on how to do this, and how he has applied the same strategies into his own classroom.
The Innovator's Mindset
The Innovator's Mindset
I give this book 5 stars for being so amazing. It inspires teachers to look beyond the traditional classroom, and continue to empower our students for today's society. We CAN'T keep teaching our students like we did FIFTY YEARS AGO! To learn more about the book visit George Couros website.
Personal Take Away
I have had an incredible experience reading The Innovator's Mindset. I"m saying experience, because that is exactly what it is, an experience! George Couros writes about schools mission vision statements, and how it should be empowering to staff, learners, and the community. As I was reading this section I was thinking to myself that we give our students so many rules of what not to do that maybe it is time for a change. In my personal classroom I always have my students come up with our classroom rules. Each student gets one sticky not and they have to write about what they think is the most important rule we should follow. Then the top five most common rules become our classroom rules. So I had an Ah ha! moment. If my students cant tell me the rules on the first day of school then they know the rules, and do not need a poster that hangs to tell them what NOT to do. Why not create something more empowering with my students. For my personal classroom this year I am changing up the status quo and I am going to have my class create a mission vision statement. Something that will empower students to try new things, fail and try again. Have students think outside of the box, and feel free to learn. I have never done anything like this before, but wanted to share my vision with all of you.
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