role-playing and simulations are well documented in social studies and history, business and vocational, foreign language, counseling, and even science classes; but dramatic techniques are rarely used to teach.
             Teachers tend to relegate drama to theater courses, isolating drama techniques from most classrooms. Yet, the literature on classroom drama suggests that there is considerable untapped potential for using drama as a teaching method. Using dramatic techniques as a teaching method is not the same thing as teaching theater. Theater is an art form, which focuses on a product, a play production for an audience. Creative Drama in the classroom is informal and focuses on the process of dramatic skills for the sake of the learner, not an audience. Creative Drama is not learning about drama, but learning through drama. While many of the ideas and practices of the arts inform drama, it is principally valued as an art form rather than a learning medium, and is validated through standards other than aesthetics. Creative Drama's goals are based in educational,
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