Role Play

Many argue the point that role play is not an effective teaching style. Personally I do not agree with this statement in all cases. For instance during our lecture on Monday night we saw clearly how this role play effected many of our peers. Emotions were shown and tempers rose. When we connect with a lesson or a teaching on a personal level I feel it is all the more vivid in our minds. Instead of reading facts and repeating them on a test and then forgetting all gained knowledge at one time, role play does in fact help us to keep more knowledge. Though tests do show and hold students accountable for a certain amount of gained knowledge at ONE POINT in time, role play helps to withhold this information for a much longer span of time.

As we saw in our simulation, the parents of higher level students were given much more attention than those of a lower level student that is struggling through school. This is the wrong attitude and approach to try and alleviate any problems within the school. We should still be challenging those higher level students but also creating solutions to help along those who are/may be left behind. I'm saying that students will then soon all be on the same level by any means. This approach to helping each student in their specific way will ensure that every student is being challenge and succeeding to the best of their abilities.