Teaching Content Outrageously: How
to Captivate All Students and
Accelerate Learning, Grades 4-12 by
Stanley Pogrow
It's A Must Read!!!
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. 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.
Personal Review: Teaching Content Outrageously: How to
Captivate All Students and Accelerate Learning, Grades 4-12 by
Stanley Pogrow
In Teaching Content Outrageously, Stanley Pogrow describes a set of
teaching strategies as "outrageous". I disagree! To me the strategies are
consistent with teaching principles that have been shown to work with all
learners. To me, the only thing "outrageous" here - is the fact that few
teachers currently use strategies such as drama, costumes, and role-play
in their daily lessons.
Teachers today compete with many technological innovations that
surround students. It is no wonder that our students are not much
interested in our "run of the mill" lectures and work sheets. In my almost
forty years of school experiences, I have found students - be they
kindergarten or graduate level - to be interested in content that is
presented in respectful, inquiring ways. In Teaching Content Outrageously,
Pogrow gives teachers permission to capitalize on this idea and to be
creative in designing and presenting lessons. He challenges us to be
better than we usually are. He presents step-by-step guides to assist even
novice teachers in design and use of creative ideas to develop their
lessons. By describing lessons developed and used by real teachers, often
ones with little or no experience, Pogrow stimulates the imagination of
experienced teachers and, more importantly, of their students.
In this book Pogrow has built on his experience and research with teaching
for higher order thinking, and interpreted both into the design and
development of strategies for real classrooms, in real schools. I highly
recommend it for any teacher interested in creating a feeling of excitement
for learning in the classroom. I am confident that teachers who use these
strategies will be rewarded with students excited about learning whatever
content they teach.
Daisy Arredondo Rucinski, Ph.D.
Professor of Education
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