Target Audience: Beginning, Middle, Advanced Trainers & Instructional Designers. Anyone who teaches, anyone in the arts or who wants to teach.

Implementation: 1 to 4-1/2 days

Objectives:

Using a centuries-old theatrical model, you will be able to heighten the impact of learning in your classroom by …

• Strengthening strong story skills
• Increasing your ability to sympathize, empathize & listen
• Furthering your personal teaching style by defining your classroom "character"
• Increasing your understanding of & experience with teamwork
• Customizing your language to the needs of your classroom
• Impacting the light, sound, color & décor of your classroom environment
• Promoting thinking "outside the box"!

The structure of the drama is the structure of life distilled.
The beginning, or exposition, sets up the dramatic situation.

EXPOSITION

Aristotle's Poetics: the elements of the drama as a model for thinking about & creating training.
PLOT
CHARACTER
THOUGHT
DICTION
MUSIC
SPECTACLE
As events occur in a play the rising action intensifies.

RISING ACTION

Collaborative teams work together throughout the class.
When a crucial decision is made that results in an action, a dramatic crisis has occurred.

CRISIS ONE

Beginning with the element of plot, each team designs a think-outside-the-box training program.

CRISIS TWO

Each team works experientially on all six elements of the dramaas defined by Aristotle in The Poetics to create a unique training program.
Several of these Crises may occur before the play culminates in a climax, which is the highest crisis of the action.

Each team "performs" their unique training program.
The play subsides with a denouement or tying up of action at the end.

DENOUEMENT

The class participates in a 360 degree feedback session.
All are applauded, and the play ends