Great Ideas From Great Writers and Educators: Part Two

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

Transformation: Two Questions for Raising the Bar
If your students didn't have to be there, would you be teaching to an empty room? I have been in many college classroom with few students and later discovered why. A boring, disengaged teacher does not spark curiosity, interest, or motivation. Make sure your classroom is authentic, active and relevant for students.
Do you have any lessons you could sell tickets for? I know some of my lessons are awesome, frog dissection, Dyson vacuum engineering lesson, but I am not sure people would buy tickets. This makes me ponder. I am inspired to create lessons that people would pay to see.
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Learn Like a Pirate: Empower Your Students To Collaborate, Lead, and Succeed by Paul Solarz

Chapter 3: Peer Evaluation
"Give me five" is not just a way to get your class quiet. Let students say it as well to get the attention of the class if they have information to share or insight to help with a class activity. Empower students to be leaders in your classroom.
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Instant Relevance: Using Today's Experiences to Teach Tomorrow's Lessons by Denis Sheeran

Instant Sudden Changes to your Surroundings
As teachers we must be prepared to let world and local events steer the conversations in our classes. If they are relevant and meaningful to students we need to answer their questions either as a class or individually. When Texas flooded last year it was a topic we discussed at length as a class both relevant to science and to the lives of our students,
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Hacking Engagement: 50 Tips & Tools To engage Teachers and Learners Daily by James alan Sturtevant

Hack 15: Bring in an artifact for Show-And-Tell

Share mementos, items that mean a lot to you, items that your students would love to see. I brought in my piece of the Berlin Wall and we discussed Science in Germany Pre-WWII and Post-WWII. It was an awesome way to make connections between a simple piece of cement and world changing events,