Teach like a pirate

There have been so many wonderful book study groups happening this summer, but we were gone for many of them and it just seems like I am now starting to get caught up on all of these fabulous books! I'm starting a little series over the next few weeks to review my favorite take-aways from all of them and calling it What I'm Reading Wednesday! This Week's Book: Teach Like a PIRATE by Dave Burgess When it comes to books for teaching, I *love* reading books about practical, hands-on ways to…

UPDATE! I updated the google site that goes with this book study to be more user friendly with a retro vibe! Feel free to make a copy or use this one for your book study! Retro Teach Like a Pirate Book Study Site Retro Bookmarks Retro Walk the Plank Questions The first huge professional development I led for my teachers in the my new gig as Curriculum Leader was starting a book club. My amazing admin invested in a book for every teacher and gave their full support by participating in the…

Yo ho! Yo ho! It's a pirate's life for me. What qualifies as treasure to teachers? Student engagement? Student learning? Student’s remembering what we’ve taught? If student engagement and learnin

Stand and Deliver What? Teachers are professional speakers? Come to think of it, we are. I find it fascinating that I can be so at ease in front of a big group of students and then terrified when speaking to a small group of adults. Now, over the years I have become more comfortable with the latter, but it took me some time and practice. Which is how I see integrating hooks into my lessons. I know it is not the quantity of hooks I use, but using just the right hook at the right time and…

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Preparing to teach like a pirate

Learning how to engage students is one of the biggest challenges for educators today. There is so much noise to cut through just to be heard much less teach tomorrow’s generation. You can teach like a pirate! Click here to learn how! #teaching | shakeuplearning.com

Use this free pirate printable book during your next kindergarten or preschool pirate theme (or as part of Talk Like a Pirate activities). You can get your own copy by clicking on the Fun-A-Day.com link.

I’m sharing tons of pirate themed music and movement activities to sing, move with scarves and dance and play instruments like a pirate!

Ahoy Pirates! Transform your classroom with perfect resources- Pirate reading passages, an elementary breakout, a STEM Challenge, & nonfiction task cards!