Curriculum for Facilitating
Dramatic Simulations
Goals, Objectives, Activities
for Positively Managing Peer Pressure
to Resist Substance-Abuse
Peer-Mentoring Project
a National Education Association Publication, published by Calendar Islands Publishers
1. Facilitators will guide students through inductive questions and interactive, improvizational,
dramatic simulations to enable them to practice positive, peer pressure navigation and
negotiation.
2. In the improvizational, dramatic simulations, students will demonstrate positive, peer pressure
management.
3. In the improvizational, dramatic simulations, students will demonstrate skills to positively avoid
substance abuse.
1. Facilitators will use dramatic
techniques to empower students in terms
of their understanding and navigating peer pressure.
2. Facilitators will evoke the students' thinking and practicing of peer
pressure,
managing techniques, rather than directing the students' thinking
and behavior.
3. Facilitators will assess their comfort zones in using improvizational,
dramatic simulation techniques.
4. Facilitators will use segmenting and a points of dramatic focus in dramatic
simulation.
5. Facilitators will lead through inductive questions.
6. Facilitators will demonstrate skills in encouraging reality during the
simulation.
7. Facilitators will probe with questions to encourage universal insight.
8. Students will practice through improvizational, dramatic simulations the
following techniques
to positively manage peer pressure and to avoid substance abuse.
a. Students will describe situations in which they could be
pressured by peers to participate
in substance abuse.
b. Students will describe peers who might be involved in such
scenarios.
c. Students will role-play such peers in such scenarios.
d. Students involved in the improvisational, dramatic simulations
will practice quickly doing the
following:
(1.) Identifying consequences of
substance abuse in the scenario
(2.) Proposing positive alternative
activities in the scenario
(3.) Moving toward alternative activities
in the scenario