A powerful instructional method for "hooking" students on academic learning Drawing 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.

Includes bibliography.

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!.