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

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 of Dramatic 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.