"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"This class was useful and will help me in the future."--Scott P., SD
"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
"The course gave me more ideas to increase student engagement. I love the presentation hooks and there are a lot of them to utilize. I also like how Burgess explains to ask yourself the right questions to help you do the right work."--Julie S., IA
"Thank you! The material was clear and appropriate for the course. I really enjoy taking these independent studies through Educational Resources of MN."--Kristie A., NE
"Another great class by Educational Resources of Minnesota! I really like these courses as everything is based on your own pave. I was able to finish the book then answer the questions throughout the time or at a later date. Also, there were a wide variety of hooks, implementations and questions throughout the book to allow me to think about my own classroom and determine what I want to use next year in my classroom. The best part of this course, it only took me 10 days to complete while taking care of my two children over the summer. Everything was easy to find, understand and complete." --Jena V., MN
