Dave Burgess is a professional development speaker, ex award winning teacher of US History in San Diego, and author of ‘Teach Like a Pirate’, looking at encouraging teachers to be more unorthodox mavericks, with entertaining, engaging and creative teaching styles, using techniques and philosophies such as presence, question forming and state shifting, advocated by self help authors such as Tony Robbins and Eckhart Tolle.

Topics include

⁃ Creating an effective classroom culture by causing active engagement from all students, and discipline by disarming without battle

⁃ Creative alchemy and taking his magic, MC and speaking skills into his classroom and management

⁃ The acronym of ‘PIRATE!’ and how it fits into a teaching profile

⁃ Breaking down your teaching passions into professional, personal and content

⁃ Using unorthodox analogies to teach, eg “Could you sell tickets to your class?” “If it wasn’t mandatory, would students still attend?”, and relating teaching a class to preparing a BBQ

⁃ Adapting to students needs and guiding them to be intrinsically motivated

⁃ The most important aspects of teaching and advice for new and aspiring teachers

⁃ Why teachers should dare to be GREAT.

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