{"id":1947,"date":"2018-09-04T13:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teachersfirst.com\/blog\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2019-04-05T09:42:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T13:42:50","slug":"lets-talk-about-teaching-like-a-pirate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/lets-talk-about-teaching-like-a-pirate\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Talk About: Teaching Like A Pirate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/teachersfirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-SEP-Lets-talk-about-Teaching-Like-a-Pirate.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1960\" src=\"http:\/\/teachersfirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-SEP-Lets-talk-about-Teaching-Like-a-Pirate-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-SEP-Lets-talk-about-Teaching-Like-a-Pirate-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-SEP-Lets-talk-about-Teaching-Like-a-Pirate-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-SEP-Lets-talk-about-Teaching-Like-a-Pirate.png 735w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Talk Like A Pirate Day is September 19th. \u00a0It is the perfect day for you to deliver an engaging lesson the <em>Teach Like A Pirate<\/em> (TLAP) way. \u00a0If you are not familiar with <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/daveburgess.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dave Burgess<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or have heard about \u201cthe pirate thing\u201d but are unsure what all the fuss is, that\u2019s OK. \u00a0This post will help you get up to speed in time to try something new on September 19th. Let\u2019s talk about Teaching Like A Pirate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A little background on the TLAP movement is in order. Dave Burgess, the author of the book Teach Like A Pirate, explains: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pirates are daring, adventurous and willing to set forth into uncharted territories&#8230;They are entrepreneurs who take risks and are willing to travel to the ends of the earth for that which they value&#8230;That description of the pirate\u2019s spirit sounds exactly like the character we need more of in education.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The PIRATE system of teaching has six key points:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Passion<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for education and feeling that passion even when the topic at hand isn\u2019t necessarily exciting<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Immersion<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the moment in order to truly engage your students<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Rapport<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with your students and giving them a safe place to have fun learning<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Asking and Analyzing<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> questions to come up with creative ways to reach your students<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Transformation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of your expectations to find new possibilities for your classroom<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Enthusiasm<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to plan and deliver high impact lessons <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dave Burgess has said that lesson planning and delivery can be seen as a Venn diagram with three circles. \u00a0The first circle is your content &#8211; goals and objectives provided by your curriculum. The next circle is techniques and methods or pedagogy. \u00a0The final circle is presentation &#8211; teacher creativity used to spark curiosity in the topic at hand. When planning a lesson we all think about content and methods, but we tend to forget presentation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first part of a presentation requires that you \u201chook\u201d your audience. If you plan lessons using the 5 E\u2019s, this is your \u201cengagement\u201d. \u00a0Madeline Hunter calls it your anticipatory set. Skipping or minimizing this detracts from the lesson. If anything, Burgess is encouraging teachers to make this bigger and more elaborate in order to really get student attention. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You say you are not a creative type? \u00a0That\u2019s OK. We can still get you up to speed by September 19th. \u00a0Take a look at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/ditchthattextbook.com\/2014\/09\/11\/the-30-day-pirate-challenge-hooks-everywhere\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Matt Miller\u2019s 30 day Pirate Challenge<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. One of the links in his post is a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B2QQNsq2vv0SbGlhS2U4RXVKUVk\/view?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">list of ideas that you might be able to use<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Card number 44 has storytelling hooks. \u00a0It asks you to think about the possibility of &#8211; speaking in character, using an accent, changing intonation, and varying volume. \u00a0What if on September 19th a pirate came to teach your class? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a third grade class you might come in and explain how your band of pirates kidnapped the teacher and since your \u201cmates\u201d were still waiting for the ransom to be paid, the teacher begged you (the pirate) to come and teach the class for the day. \u00a0In math, they could organize data comparing barnacles, starfish, and crabs using graphs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A tenth grade English class might be engaged by a pirate teaching poetry analysis. \u00a0The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/shanty.rendance.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shanties and Sea Songs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> website provides lyrics in the appropriate genre. \u00a0There are plenty of ways to introduce word choice, intended text meaning, author\u2019s purpose, imagery, literary devices and more using these songs. \u00a0If dressing up is not your style, why not try a real-world application as suggested on card #24? Your students might use <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/animoto.com\/business\/education\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Animoto<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (reviewed <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachersfirst.com\/single.cfm?id=10388\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) to create and share a PSA to bring light to current <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2018\/world\/pirates-return-to-the-caribbean\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.daf207d7e112\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pirate situations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2018re looking for a way to mix things up in your classroom or just want to see how students might react to the PIRATE style of teaching, don\u2019t pass up this opportunity. \u00a0The Talk Like A Pirate gang provides a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/talklikeapirate.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/curriculum-1.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">primer<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that you can use. Speech-Language teachers can find some free shared lesson materials that feature pirates at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/lessonpix.com\/sharingSearch.php?word=pirate\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LessonPix<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. You can find a geography-based piracy lesson <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geographyalltheway.com\/myp\/myp-pirates\/pirates-heroes-villains.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use the comment area to tell us what you decided to try, and how it went. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk Like A Pirate Day is September 19th. \u00a0It is the perfect day for you to deliver an engaging lesson the Teach Like A Pirate (TLAP) way. \u00a0If you are not familiar with Dave Burgess or have heard about \u201cthe pirate thing\u201d but are unsure what all the fuss is, that\u2019s OK. \u00a0This post will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/lets-talk-about-teaching-like-a-pirate\/\" class=\"more-link\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[107,135,174],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lets-talk-about","tag-creativity","tag-engagement","tag-teaching"],"modified_by":"Karen Streeter","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10202,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions\/10202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersfirst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}