Learn Like a PIRATE

Learn Like a PIRATE : Empower Your Students to Collaborate, Lead, and Succeed

Collaboration. Empowerment. Student Leadership. These buzz words get a lot of press, but what do they really mean for today's students? Can students really handle the responsibility of leading the class? Can they actually learn what they need to if they are working together so often? Won't all this freedom cause chaos in the classroom? Not if you're teaching them to learn like PIRATES! Peer collaboration builds community and supports teamwork and cooperation. Improvement-focused learning challenges students to constantly strive to be their best. Responsibility for daily tasks builds ownership in the classroom. Active learning turns boring lessons into fun and memorable experiences. Twenty-first century skills engage students now and prepare them for their futures. Empowerment allows students to become confident risk-takers who make bold decisions. In Learn Like a PIRATE, teachers will discover practical strategies for creating a student-led classroom in which students are inspired and empowered to take charge of their learning experience. You'll learn strategies for: Crafting active, relevant, and interesting lessons Creating opportunities for student leadership Providing effective and beneficial feedback Instilling confidence so students can take risks Increasing curiosity and passion for learning Incorporate the techniques and strategies Paul Solarz uses in his student-led classroom and watch your students transform into confident, collaborative leaders.

  • Format: Paperback | 274 pages
  • Dimensions: 152 x 226 x 15mm | 386g
  • Publication date: 09 Mar 2015
  • Publisher: Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc.
  • Publication City/Country: San Diego, CA
  • Language: English
  • ISBN10: 098821766X
  • ISBN13: 9780988217669
  • Bestsellers rank: 100,273

More Books:

Learn Like a PIRATE
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Paul Solarz
Categories: Active learning
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03-09 - Publisher: Dave Burgess Consulting

Teach kids peer collaboration, improvement-focused learning, responsibility, active learning, twenty-first century skills, and empowerment.
Teach Like a Pirate
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Dave Burgess
Categories: Active learning
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Dave Burgess Consulting

In this book you'll learn how to: tap into your passion as a teacher - even when you're less than excited about the subject; develop creative presentations that
Lead Like a Pirate
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Shelley Burgess
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher:

This book explains how to design classroom experiences that encourage students to take risks and explore their passions in a stimulating, motivating, and suppor
Be More Pirate
Language: en
Pages: 326
Authors: Sam Conniff Allende
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-03 - Publisher: Penguin UK

Whatever your ambitions, ideas and challenges, this book will revolutionize the way you live, think and work today, and tomorrow. Pirates didn't just break the
Tech Like a PIRATE
Language: en
Pages: 160
Authors: Matt Miller
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-24 - Publisher:

Tech Like a PIRATE helps provide the tools, ideas, and inspiration for educators to use technology as a treasure map to amazing learning. With a customizable se
P Is for Pirate
Language: en
Pages: 54
Authors: Dave Burgess
Categories: Active learning
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-21 - Publisher:

"Teaching is an adventure that stretches the imagination and calls for creativity every day! In P is for pirate, husband and wife team Dave and Shelley Burgess
How I Became a Pirate
Language: en
Pages: 48
Authors: Melinda Long
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

"Pirates have green teeth when they have any teeth at all. I know about pirates, because one day, when I was at the beach building a sand castle and minding my
Ditch That Textbook
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Matt Miller
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-13 - Publisher:

Textbooks are symbols of centuries-old education. They're often outdated as soon as they hit students' desks. Acting "by the textbook" implies compliance and a
Are Pirates Polite?
Language: en
Pages: 40
Authors: Corinne Demas
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-29 - Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Pirates may fight and plunder booty. But when they do so, they are polite! "Pirates are unrulyand pirates love to fight,but pirates still say 'please' and 'than
How to Be a Pirate
Language: en
Pages: 36
Authors: John Malam
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10 - Publisher: National Geographic Books

Describes the daily life of eighteenth-century pirates in a humorous "how to" format, covering a pirate's required skills, ship, flag, clothing, food and drink,