Book Study Assignment: Teach Like a Pirate, Part 3 - Educator's Role

This assignment analyzes Part 3 of the book "Teach Like a Pirate", focusing on the role of educators and the pursuit of greatness. The student explores the significance of striving for excellence in teaching, contrasting it with mediocrity and its impact on student motivation. The assignment also delves into the common reasons why individuals may not achieve greatness, providing personal examples to illustrate these points. Furthermore, it examines the meaning of the phrase "Don't let the critic steal your soul," offering strategies for educators to navigate criticism and maintain their passion for teaching. The assignment concludes with a discussion on the realistic expectations of student engagement and its implications for teaching practices, including a reference to Burgess (2012) and Law (2013).

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Answer 1:
To be an inspirational teacher or an educator is the most vital role that a person can play
in a society by building its future ‘the children'. It is really important to perform this task
efficiently and seriously as much as possible without any mediocrity. Because educator has a
massive contribution in simply making the children a better human being along with giving them
good education and implementing valuable thoughts in them. On the other hand, an inefficient
educator or teacher can give wrong direction to the children by not teaching them essential
values and not controlling them when they should be controlled. An educator shapes a child and
it very important for an educator to not be mediocre rather supremely efficient in its work in
order to build a concretely productive education system. A teacher should be someone who uses
new ideas and methods of teaching the children and knows how to make them behave properly in
the classroom. An efficient teacher can transform the children in all aspects and remains an
inspiration for many (Burgess, 2012).
Answer 2:
An educator must have the quality that are required in order to perform its task in the
classroom, although the most important factor according to my experience is that; being educated
and being a teacher are not the same thing. Anybody can be a good educated person but not
everyone can be an efficient teacher. However, to be a teacher and to teach, one has to be
educated but controlling children and providing the atmosphere for them to learn something and
delivering knowledge to them in the best way possible is not a task that everyone can perform
well. It takes a person who is good in identifying the children’s need, their capability, and is able
to use different teaching methods to support the children in their learning method, is supposedly
a good teacher, which is something that not everyone can achieve. As per my personal

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experience I have seen some teacher in my sisters school, who were not so efficient at
controlling children neither teaching them, which is actually very destructive in terms of the
education system and the children (Burgess, 2012).
Answer 3:
“Don’t let the critic take away your soul”, this phrase simply means that people will
criticize and it is extremely easy to judge just by standing at the corner and watching all things
happen; but it takes a lot effort and thought in the process of teaching and to be in the arena
facing the judgement. People mostly get criticized when they move outside the box and rejects to
follow the culture of conformity, and all not criticism is destructive rather it needs to be decided
by us that which criticism to take as an opportunity for growth and which to ignore (Law, 2013).
Also not every critic has the idea of what is happening and still judges, so it is ok not listen to
them and have courage, self-confidence and intestinal fortitude to focus on your teaching
because only the teacher knows what is good for the kids. So an educator should never be
misguided by anyone rather stick to it’s enthusiasm for innovation and exploration and rigidly
perform it’s job. A teacher is an inspiration for the children and an efficient teacher should be
concrete about decision making without getting ill-informed by anyone (Burgess, 2012).

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References:
Burgess, D. (2012). Teach like a pirate. San Diego, US: Dave Burgess Consulting.
Law, T. (2013). Teaching building services like a pirate. In 47th International Conference of the
Architectural Science Association, School of Architecture (pp. 95-104).