Role playing

Objectives: 

1. To practice and train individual good practices beforehand
2. to empathize with other teachers
3. to correct mistakes and get ready for actual using the techniques

Target:

Teachers, Mentor, Tutors

When:

Learning a new teaching technique or handling hard case studies.

Methodology and timing

1. Teachers put down common problems and mistakes (role-playing scenarios) (5’)
2. They brainstorm possible solutions and techniques (15’)
3. Teachers choose role-playing scenarios and are assigned roles (5’)
4.    Ideally they switch roles (15-20’)
5. Teachers reflect on their feelings, findings, what worked and what was not effective, first individually, then together (15-30’)

Advices

  1. This is a perfect technique for teacher trainings – participants randomly choose from a set of situations and are forced to react immediately.
  2. This technique is particularly effective in classroom management topic.

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