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Teaching Content Outrageously: How to Captivate All Students and Accelerate Learning, Grades 4-12
Stanley Pogrow,
San Francisco State University
ISBN: 978-0-470-18026-6
©2009
256 pages
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This book offers a dynamic and innovative approach for teaching content lessons and will provide an important supplemental text for general methods courses, especially for teaching challenging and at-risk students who seem disengaged and resistant to learning. Drawing from a teaching model designed specifically for working with underperforming Title I students, the book introduces the Dramatized Content method, showing how dramatic practices can serve as powerful instructional tools for enlivening lessons and captivating students, including the most reluctant learners. It’s a must-have resource for teaching the YouTube generation. Although the book covers use of simulations, games, and improvisations in which students play a role, its primary focus is on roles the teacher can play, especially in adding elements of humor, surprise, fantasy, and mystery to create “outrageous” standards-based lessons that are riveting, effective, and meaningful. It also shows how dramatic practices help with discipline and classroom management. The book features numerous classroom portraits of teachers making use of the method in conducting lessons across the content areas, from analyzing literature to mastering difficult math concepts. The sample lessons reveal that practices as simple as adopting a minor voice change or character disguise, or by incorporating elements of suspense, can enable teachers to connect emotionally with the students, who thus become more willing to engage with the content and meet the learning objectives. In addition to providing guidance and templates for designing “outrageous” lessons, the book convincingly shows that dramatic techniques can be successfully practiced by any teacher, even those who consider themselves highly introverted.
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