• Teach Like a Pirate

  • Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator
  • By: Dave Burgess
  • Narrated by: Dave Burgess
  • Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (615 ratings)

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Teach Like a Pirate

By: Dave Burgess
Narrated by: Dave Burgess
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Based on Dave Burgess' popular Teach Like a Pirate seminars, this audiobook offers inspiration, practical techniques, and innovative ideas that will help you to increase student engagement, boost your creativity, and transform your life as an educator. You'll learn how to:

  • Tap into and dramatically increase your passion as a teacher
  • Develop outrageously engaging lessons that draw students in like a magnet
  • Establish rapport and a sense of camaraderie in your classroom
  • Transform your class into a life-changing experience for your students

This groundbreaking inspirational manifesto contains more than 30 hooks specially designed to captivate your class and 170 brainstorming questions that will skyrocket your creativity. Once you learn the Teach Like a Pirate system, you'll never look at your role as an educator the same again.

©2015 Dave Burgess (P)2019 Dave Burgess

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Teach like a Pirate is inspirational

Are you in the capacity of a teacher? If so you will get some inspired ideas from this book. The passion with which the narrator/author reads the content is as if he is simply talking to you, which I like! Great book for the beginning teacher and for the veteran teacher. The audio sample given is a true representation of what you’re going to get from this book!

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I loved it so much!

I Loved it and I will be taking learning adventures with my students. I recommend it to every educator seasoned or new.

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Ready to Be a Pirate!

Invigorating!
Energizing!
Inspiring!
Relevant!
Fantastic!
I can't wait to apply what I learned!
Great book!

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Reenergize like a pirate

Amazon mailed my physical book to the other side of the world. It was my fault so I bought the Digital book as well. Loved it. When I saw that the audio book was released yesterday, I realized that i want this super-mobile version on my ears as well so that this message remains in my head.

This book is a perfect combination of alignment with my core teaching philosophy as well as an important, somewhat gentle push in the direction where I want to go so that I can be a better leader in my classroom.

His excellent use of visual language and metaphors have lingered in my head and lead me ti take action both during classes and during the sometimes grueling planning sessions late at night.

There is no bad time to read or listen to this book. However, I do strongly suggest it for mid-year breaks or reenergize teachers.

I will be gifting this audiobook to others.

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Fantastic Motivator

I’m going into year 12 and I just finally read this book. I want to read it again after just finishing it yesterday. For the first time I feel like I CAN be creative too. Thank you for that! I’ve already brainstormed my first week to make it unique and engaging, as well as my first unit. I highly recommend this book to newbies and veterans as well!

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Fantastic!!!

I loved the content, but the narrator sold it! I believe everything he said because he put his heart and soul into reading this book. normally, I hate listening to boring teacher audiobooks. This one captivates you from the beginning and inspires you to do your best!

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Excellent presentation book!

This is an amazing book with resources to teach your subject with passion and enthusiasm!

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Wonderful Resource

I have heard such great things about this book! It will be my first year teaching ELA at a public school and there are so many tips I will incorporate in my classroom especially bringing objects and enthusiasm! Thank you.

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MUST READ

Loved it! Everyone involved in education needs Dave in their life! No matter your level, listen with an open mind and prepare to be set on fire!

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Made me excited to start the new school year!!!

Dave Burgess has a way of hyping you up about education!!! Just what I needed.

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