Teaching Content Outrageously: How to Captivate All Students and Accelerate Learning, Grades 4-12

by Stanley Pogrow (San Francisco State University)

• ISBN13: 9780470623435
• ISBN10: 0470623438
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

A powerful instructional method for "hooking" students on academic learningDrawing from a teaching model designed to banish boredom and student apathy, this book explains how dramatic practices can serve as powerful tools for enlivening lessons and captivating students, even the most resistant learners. Filled with intriguing classroom examples, Pogrow shows how any teacher can make use of dramatic techniques, such as surprise, humor, fantasy, role plays, games, and simulations to create standards-based content lessons that are riveting, effective, and meaningful. The author explains how to design such lessons into any content area.Stanley Pogrow (San Francisco, CA), a noted authority on teaching practices for disadvantaged students, is professor of educational leadership at San Francisco State University, where he coordinates the Educational Leadership for Equity Program.

Table of Contents

About This Book

About the Author

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Why Teach Outrageously in All the Content Areas?

Perspectives on Dramatizing Content Instruction

From Discipline to Outrageous Teaching: Classroom Use of Dramatic Techniques

How to Design Outrageous Lessons: Essential Steps

Outrageous Lessons: Examples from the Classroom

Suspense and Surprise: Why Outrageous Lessons Work

Getting Started

So . . . Let's Do It!

The Origins of Drama

Games and Quizzes-Selected Resources

Simulation Units-Selected Resources

Lesson Plans for the Sample Lessons

Teaching Outrageously in the Early Grades

References

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