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Okay, I read that book Teach like a pirate. I respect anyone who goes out of their way to write an ed book, good on ya. But I cannot express in more fervent terms how completely and catastrophically wrong their analysis of how to improve education is.
The problem isn& #39;t how enthusiastic, caring, fun, or tech-driven schools are. Most do a good job of that. The problem is completely failing to understand the most basic science around how people learn. We can& #39;t "engage" our way out of educational failure.
We& #39;ve been told the reason for failure is that somehow school doesn& #39;t fit the generation X (or whatever moniker) brain. Yet the truth is, their brains are like ours, and our ancestors and our ancestors& #39; ancestors.
...our pedagogy doesn& #39;t fit with generation X& #39;s brain. But that& #39;s because we have been misunderstanding that brain by thinking the most fundamentally important evolutionary process that has taken thousands of years to evolve can shift in a generation.
So actually, the kids are alright! The problem isn& #39;t that we need to do something fundamentally different, it& #39;s that we have been trying so hard to be transformative and different we have forgotten what has always been true.
So yes, teach like a teacher. No need to be a pirate. Be yourself, love your subject, and explain it well.
