Teach Like a PIRATE: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator by Dave Burgess

Author:Dave Burgess [Dave Burgess]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc.
Published: 2012-10-22T00:00:00+00:00

PART II

CRAFTING ENGAGING LESSONS

THE THIRD CIRCLE

The power of a lesson cannot be maximized without incorporating a masterful presentation. It’s like riding a bike with flat tires. You may be doing everything right, but you’re working harder than necessary and getting sub-par results. When you have crafted an engaging lesson for your material it is like coasting downhill on a perfectly tuned bicycle with two fully inflated tires. Everything seems easier because the students are drawn into your material as if by some magical or magnetic force.

The Teach Like a PIRATE system I presented in Section I lays the foundation for building these magical and magnetic results. All six of those chapters are critically important to effectively reaching and teaching your students. This section focuses on the how of creating engaging lessons. It is a “toolbox” of strategies you can draw on to energize your lessons and engage your students. After all, it’s one thing to know you should engage your students. Actually being engaging requires planning, preparation, and presentation.

Take a look at the triple Venn diagram below. The overwhelming majority of professional development workshops focus on the bottom two circles: content and technique/method. Without question, these areas are critical. If you don’t have the content element of your lesson in place, you are either just entertaining or babysitting. My assumption is that you are an expert in your subject’s content. If not, put this book down and go learn your subject. Come back when you’re ready to present a lesson! I’m also making the assumption in this discussion that through your educational program and professional development you have an array of instructional techniques and methods at your disposal. I’m sure you’ve been to the think-pair-share workshop and the jigsaw session. You’ve probably learned about scaffolding and SDAIE strategies, attended the literacy training to learn how to build academic vocabulary, and you probably already know the benefits of graphic organizers. Those are all good tools and techniques.

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