14 "Guarantees"
Believing what will happen when teachers use drama thoughtfully and effectively in their classrooms

1. Making abstract concepts concrete.
2. Teaching a narrow fact so that it is fully learned-placed in a context for added meaning.
3. Introducing artifacts so that children are curious about them and experience them at a significant level-an important quality of any learning.
4. Inducing students to reflect on experience and see what they have in common with other people.
5. Opening doors to curriculum areas students might fear to venture including, science, mathematics, and literature.
6. Giving students freedom coupled with responsibility.
7. Clarifying values.
8. Developing tolerance for a variety of personalities and ideas.
9. Showing students how they can stay with something they don't like, perhaps geometry or Tennyson's poetry, to a point of accomplishment.
10. Increasing students' vocabularies and helping students develop finer control of rhetoric through interaction with others.
11. Bringing classes into situations that will increase social health.
12. Helping students discover that they know more then they thought they knew.
13. Leading students to the real world more clearly in light of what they have learned in an imagined one.
14. Helping students capture more of what is implicit in any experience. That is, dramatization encourages probing into the meanings of terms, the use of words in the context of action, the nature of human relationships and individuals motivations - and more generally encourages refection on experiences and what one is learning from them.