Teaching Content Outrageously
How to Captivate All Students and Accelerate Learning, Grades 4-12
Published on 14. January 2010
256 pages
978-0-470-62344-2 (ISBN)
Description
A powerful instructional method for "hooking" students on academiclearning
Drawing from a teaching model designed to banish boredom andstudent apathy, this book explains how dramatic practices can serveas powerful tools for enlivening lessons and captivating students,even the most resistant learners. Filled with intriguing classroomexamples, Pogrow shows how any teacher can make use of dramatictechniques, such as surprise, humor, fantasy, role plays, games,and simulations to create standards-based content lessons that areriveting, effective, and meaningful. The author explains how todesign such lessons into any content area.
Stanley Pogrow (San Francisco, CA), a noted authority onteaching practices for disadvantaged students, is professor ofeducational leadership at San Francisco State University, where hecoordinates the Educational Leadership for Equity Program.
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Teaching Content Outrageously
How to Captivate All Students and Accelerate Learning, Grades 4-12
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Stanley Pogrow, Ph.D., is professor of Educational Leadership at¿San Francisco State University. He is best known for developing the HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) Program for accelerating the learning of underperforming Title I (economically disadvantaged) and special education students.
Content
About This Book
About the Author
Dedication.
Acknowledgments.
1. Why Teach Outrageously in All the Content Areas?
2. Perspectives on Dramatizing Content Instruction.
3. From Discipline to Outrageous Teaching: Classroom Use ofDramatic Techniques.
4. How to Design Outrageous Lessons: Essential Steps.
5. Outrageous Lessons: Examples from the Classroom.
6. Suspense and Surprise: Why Outrageous Lessons Work.
7. Getting Started.
8. So . . . Let's Do It!
Appendix A: The Origins of Drama.
Appendix B: Games and Quizzes-Selected Resources.
Appendix C: Simulation Units-Selected Resources.
Appendix D: Lesson Plans for the Sample Lessons.
Appendix E: Teaching Outrageously in the Early Grades.
References.
