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, class participants 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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“Teach Like A Pirate was a very beneficial class for myself. I was seeking to find a class that would help with building student rapport and increase student engagement. My uncle recommended this class to me and it was exactly what I was looking for. I enjoyed this class more than other graduate level classes I have taken in that I was able to work at my own pace and complete work when I had time to fit extra work in. The content was perfect for the components of my classroom that I needed to work on. This class content will greatly help me in my position. I have thoroughly enjoyed this course and look forward to enrolling in more Educational Resources of MN classes in the future.” -Rebecca J.