Summary Of Teach Like A Pirate By Dave Burgess

For my book review I chose to read the book “Teach Like a Pirate” by Dave Burgess. This book was published by Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc. in San Diego, California in September of 2012. Teach Like a Pirate is divided into three parts, is 176 pages long and is an education/curriculum book. Dave Burgess’s intent of this book is to help teachers become wildly engaging in the classroom and more fulfilled in their profession. It is written for teachers of all subjects and at all grade levels, and this book explains how you can generate a new passion for teaching and discover new depths of creativity, in order to produce lesson plans that captivate and “hook” your students. In this report I plan to give a summary of each part of the book, my evaluation …show more content…
Instead of looking at limitations, imagine the possibilities. We need to go out of our way to make the content we teach interesting, we need to position lessons so that students can make connections to their daily lives, and we need to reframe the "boring" content as something amazing. In the text, Burgess asks, "Do you have any lessons you could sell tickets for??". I liked this section because it got me to want to teach lessons that I could “sell tickets” for, and it really got me to think about the lessons I already teach and how I can turn them into more exciting of …show more content…
The book was interesting, entertaining, and instructive. You could really feel Dave Burgess’s enthusiasm in the book, his passion for teaching, and his desire to teach like a pirate. He is definitely all about engagement for the kids and bringing out the fun and joy in teaching. Burgess argues that it is our job as teachers to inspire students, create lifelong learners, and engage kids each and every day in the learning process. He supports his arguments with quips, memorable stories, and honesty that cannot be ignored throughout his entire book. What I like the most about this book is the fact that it can be used at any grade level, in any content area, and it includes a lot of self-reflection. This book allows for the reader to pick up on their strengths and their weaknesses and how they can then improve on their weaknesses. Teach Like a Pirate includes 30 “hooks” specially designed to engage students and 176 brainstorming questions to boost teachers’ creativity levels. In schools, it is so hard to teach students the standards, incorporate creativity, and making the lessons engaging, but Burgess shows us exactly how we can do all of this just buy incorporating the PIRATE teaching philosophy into our classrooms. I would definitely recommend this book to all educators, because we can all take something away from this book, and improve our classrooms in one way or