This independent study course is designed to provide teachers with tools and strategies to teach like a PIRATE. The word “PIRATE” in his book is an acronym describing six traits of a passionate, on-fire, engaging teacher. It stands for:
- Passion: Infusing your teaching with content passion, professional passion and personal passion
- Immersion: Your ability to completely give yourself up to the moment and fully “be” with your students
- Rapport: Making students feel important by developing relationships with them
- Ask and Analyze: Ask great questions and always analyze your situation
- Transformation: Make your classroom and teaching exceptional and worth noticing
- Enthusiasm: Light fires under your students with zeal for education
As teachers complete the course lessons they will be able to reflect on their current teaching strategies and begin to implement new, possibly more effective teaching strategies.
In this course you will:
- Develop engaging lessons that will draw students into the content being taught.
- Learn techniques to help increase your own passion as an educator and pass that passion onto the students
- Create and develop your own teaching strategies and provide examples to implement in the classroom
- Acquire skills beneficial not only for your students, but for yourself as an educator as well.
- Develop techniques unique to your own classroom subject area
- Describe the effects of implementing particular techniques in the classroom and the impact it has on students
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“I liked this course a lot because it applied things that I can go back and try in my classroom. This course was refreshing for me after taking my masters classes in administration. I don’t plan to be an administrator any time soon, so this class kickstarted some thoughts and new things that I can take back and apply to my classroom right now.”– Jill K., NE
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“This class was useful and will help me in the future.”–Scott P., SD
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“Teach Like a Pirate offers unique, powerful, and straightforward insights into keeping students engaged and interested in the daily lessons. The practical and intentional changes teachers make in their lessons suggested in this course provide students with a reason to come to class.”–Alicia P., OH
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“Again, another great course. I especially appreciated the topic on building rapport as well as the thoughts about making your class a transformative experience for your students. The ideas and wisdom in this class can be great additions to all teachers strategies to use in the classroom.”–Cory V., CA
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“This course allows you to reflect on your own teaching practices and makes you want to strive to be a great teacher.”–Bridget B., IA
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“Teach Like A Pirate helps to guide teachers in classroom management, building rapport and class structure. This was a good course to self reflect on how my classroom is being ran and how to take it to the next level.”–Andrew M., OH
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“Teach Like A Pirate helped reinforce my teaching philosophy for passion, rapport, enthusiasm, and it helped me craft engaging lessons that I can use in the classroom immediately. Other graduate courses that I have taken were just a lot of busy work that had little to do with my current job, but this course helped me reinforce what I already do in my classroom every day.”–Teri N., IA