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

Publisher's summary

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

Braggy and I found him hard to take.

I listened to 2-1/2 hours and couldn't take anymore. He was too much. Gimmicky. I can tell he thinks he is a great teacher.

Best Motivational Teaching Book Ever!

As I’m finishing the last part of my teaching degree, I was asked to read 5 books from a list of about 30. I was not excited about this because of the time it takes to read 5books! However, finding this book in an audio version changed my opinion. Dave is such a wonderful speaker and he truly motivates me to become the teacher I want to be. Wow, what a great experience listening to him. I can only imagine how his keynote speaking in person is! This is definitely worth the 4 hours of your time if you are a teacher needing some inspiration!

ehhh

his concept makes sense. but he lost me on the "how to be a better lover" example. He could have related his ideas differently.

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!

Student teacher

it was really interesting and empowering..... a little exhausting... but a good read that has some great ideas to turn up a classroom!

Every and I mean EVERY teacher should read this.

This book is amazing, entertaining, and USEFUL! Perfect book to read during the 3 quarter slump or during the summer to revolutionize your teaching.

A must read for teachers

Fun and interesting read and a must read for teachers who are keen to stimulate a passion for learning as compared to studying.

What the…?

Not a fan of whatever this was. Why is he trying so hard? Please write for a different audience.

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!

Reheated Tony Robbins

This book was punishing to get through. If you like generic motivational speaker style then this may be your jam. it was certainly not for me.

The voice performance was quite overdone. I get that being hyper and enthusiastic is the majority of what he's selling, but the purple prose made me wince. His voice was often cracking from over exertion and made listening unpleasant. Hire a professional next time.

I'd also switch editors because chapters regularly rambled. What he clearly imagined as building tension and interest just made me annoyed. I don't doubt his schtick would work better on stage, but writing and performing on stage (and this is 99% a book on performance) are two very different skill sets.

Finally, the condescension towards his fellow teachers was really off-putting. Again, be confident. Be proud, but have just a bit of humility. A lot of his stories of his own, self proclaimed, renown involves putting words in the mouths of students or talking about how much more popular his classes were. Why not brag about more success stories from other teachers that employed his style? It would achieve the same goal without sounding so oleaginous.

Inspiring and authentic

What an amazing book. I am so glad this audiobook is narrated by Dave Burgess himself! He did a phenomenal job. It’s inspirational, authentic and a treasure chest of ideas for any teacher.

Enthusiastic and seriously cringeworthy

Whilst I loved the title, the book was disappointing. I am finding it difficult to finish...I'm half way through. I work largely in early years and key stage 1 and there is nothing new about the teaching strategies except maybe that he is attempting them with older students. These are tried and tested techniques and have been adopted for years in early years teaching.

Amendment: I have tried yet again to finish this book but decided to delete it instead. I can't get past the author's annoyingly over-the-top admiration for himself and the cringeworthy statements he reads from un-named and possible non-existent students, who write in exactly the same language as the author, which he uses to exemplify his reasons for singing his own praises.

Pirates forever!

Truly new way of looking at lesson plannig. Inspirational and practical. Burgess makes you want to get out there and DO it!