Curriculum for Facilitating
Dramatic Simulations
for Educational and Therapeutic
Goals, Objectives, Activities
a National Education Association Publication, published by Calendar Islands Publishers
1. Facilitators will guide participants through inductive questions and interactive, improvisational,
dramatic simulations to enable them to practice positive, pressure navigation and
negotiation.
2. In the improvisational, dramatic simulations, participants will demonstrate positive pressure
management.
3. In the improvisational, dramatic simulations, participants will demonstrate skills to positively avoid
negative responses.
1. Facilitators will use dramatic
techniques to empower participants in terms
of their understanding and navigating negative pressures.
2. Facilitators will evoke the participants' thinking and practicing of
negative
pressure,
managing techniques, rather than directing the
participants' thinking
and behavior.
3. Facilitators will assess participants' comfort zones in using improvisational,
dramatic simulation techniques.
4. Facilitators will use segmenting and a points of dramatic focus in
dramatic simulations.
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. Participants will practice through improvisational, dramatic simulations the
following techniques
to positively manage negative pressure and to avoid
harmful impacts.
a. Participants will describe situations in which they could be
negatively impacted.
b. Participants will describe peers who might be involved in such
scenarios.
c. Participants will role-play and/or observe
role-plays of such scenarios.
d. Participants involved in the improvisational, dramatic simulations
will practice doing the
following:
(1.) Identifying consequences of
negative responses.
(2.) Making positive alternative
responses in reaction to scenarios.
(3.) Moving toward positive alternative activities
in the scenario