Role play:
In role play, the learners are assigned roles which they act out within a scenario given by the lecturer. The lecturer must choose a scenario for a role play that gives the learners an opportunity to prepare what they have been taught. The role should also keep the learners interested. A scenario for a role play can be found by things they have encountered in their lives, from a book or a movie. After choosing the scenario for a role play, their learners have to then brainstorm ideas on how the scenario would progress. The lecturer must try to keep the skill set for the role play simple or to a point where the learners can understand. Role plays with problems or arguments in them can be excellent motivators for making the characters in the role play talk. Once the role play has been chosen, the appropriate language use would be next. The use of vocabulary needs to be in sync with the grade level of the role play. The lecturer must then provide the learners with solid information and simple role descriptions. The lecturer then can either ask for volunteers or assign roles in advance, the latter keeps things simple with no time wasted. Finally when the role play is complete, the lecturer will take time to listen to the rest of the learner’s opinions about the play.
The advantages of role play are that the learners become active participants in the lesson and are therefore able to understand being in that scenario; they learn how to handle conflict; learn to look at situations differently; also forming empathy and a reflective insight. The learners also tend to remember things better if experienced versus simply hearing or reading about. The lecturer would benefit from role playing because the learners will be learning mo...
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Despite the shortcomings of the study, the writer concurs with Kopp and Miltenberger (2008) that the role plays used are valid and acceptable for assessing child abuse prevention skills; the study also demonstrated that role-plays have therapeutic value.
Educators can have strong feelings on the subject because having special needs students in a regular classroom can have a large impact on the classroom community. Those who believe in inclusive classrooms realize that, to be successful, it requires allot of classroom management and differentiated instruction, but feel the benefits are worth the work involved. Those who do not believe in inclusion feel that it leads to “l...
Schools in today’s society are rapidly changing and growing striving to implement the best practices in their schools. Nonetheless, before a school can implement a program in their school, they need reliable evidence that the new program will work. A new program that schools are aiming to implement is inclusion in the classroom because of the benefits inclusion could bring. The implementation of inclusion is strongly connected by people’s attitudes whether they are positive or negative. However, while inclusion is being widely implemented, there is comparatively little data on its effectiveness. It may be that inclusion benefits some areas such as reading and social skills, more than it does others.
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First of all and to be honest, I was not prepared for the first two role-plays we did, because I thought it would not be necessary as I thought I am skilled in arguing and therefore felt prepared enough to deal with any argument that would come my way. I was proved wrong and therefore glad not to be the one who had to participate at the first two role-plays because all the others had better arguments and knowledge about certain facts.
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They will use their imagination and past experiences of going to a café or restaurant in order to become engaged in this activity. This is useful as children get the chance to act out something that they have seen which helps them form an understanding of different situations. During role play children also get the chance to practice solving problems for example in the scene of a café making sure there is enough food for the other children coming into the café or even giving change to those children who buy something from the
In this essay I will reflect upon the inclusive learning environment, i intend on reflecting this by researching, reading, extending my own knowledge and a recent exemplar visit. The main issues i have chosen to cover throughout this essay are inclusion, children’s learning and the environment. Issues i will also cover are Special Educational Needs (SEN), Every Child Matters (EMC), Diversity and legislations. I intend on doing this by arguing, analyzing and discussing the inclusive learning environment. Inclusive learning environments can be varied from the school environment to the home environment. Both having a significant impact to a child’s learning. The environment within schools needs to be stimulating, creative and enjoyable for all children to learn in. Effective classroom organization, interaction between both staff and children are essential to the inclusive learning environment.
...ng in the educational context requires teachers as the competent adults or instructors, it demonstrates the importance of teacher presence in all areas of the curriculum especially in play. Whether through Piaget’s cognitive constructivism or Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development, it is important for teachers to actively participate and interact with the children to foster their cognitive and social development. To scaffold children’s play, the teacher is important in roles such as creating the right play environment by preparing adequate materials, designing the playing space and ensuring adequate play materials, designing appropriate play experiences to structure and facilitate the children’s development and facilitating interactions among the children and between themselves and the children to facilitate and support meaning making (Module 2 & Module 3, 2012).
Inclusion in classrooms is defined as combining students with disabilities and students without disabilities together in an educational environment. It provides all students with a better sense of belonging. They will enable friendships and evolve feelings of being a member of a diverse community (Bronson, 1999). Inclusion benefits students without disabilities by developing a sense of helping others and respecting other diverse people. By this, the students will build up an appreciation that everyone has unique yet wonderful abilities and personalities (Bronson, 1999). This will enhance their communication skills later in life. Inclusive classrooms provide students with disabilities a better education on the same level as their peers. Since all students would be in the same educational environment, they would follow the same curriculum and not separate ones based on their disability. The main element to a successful inclusive classroom, is the teachers effort to plan the curriculum to fit all students needs. Teachers must make sure that they are making the material challenging enough for students without special needs and understandable to students with special needs. Inclusive classrooms are beneficial to students with and without special needs.
In this essay I will be describing various types of learning styles and stating the advantages and disadvantages of these learning styles. I will also inform you of the most commonly used method of finding out your own learning style, and I will inform you of the man who made this method. Finally, I will write about my own preferred learning styles and the strengths and weaknesses of the different learning styles.
Role-play. Role-play provides learners with an opportunity to practice target vocabulary in meaningful and different social contexts and it provides communication skills and social awareness. Learners learn to use the vocabulary learnt through role-play in a more realistic and more practical way. The effects of role-play for teaching vocabulary are positive (Huang &
Before diving into my research, I reflected on the knowledge I already knew regarding play and play based learning. From experience, I know that play is an enjoyable activity for children, and even some adults. I know that there are different ways one can play. For example, playing with others is known as cooperative play and playing alone is considered solitary play. There are different types of play. For example, there is dress up or pretend games, which is considered dramatic, play and there is playing with building blocks which is constructive play. After my reflection I realized that I was more knowledgeable on the action of playing rather then the benefits of it.
Our role as an educator is to support the children as its essential to give the children the opportunity they deserve to engage in open ended play. Educators play the role in a child Mesosystem as they are influenced by the interactions a relationships we are able to create as student- teacher according to Urie Bronfenbrenner Ecological theory. Children are born to be curious about a particular aspects and challenge themselves with it creating a fantasy world around themselves during the exploration letting them learn and grasp new concepts and experience new way of learning. To do this, the educator must be flexible and creative enough to create activities that would benefit a child holistic development. The educator must make sure child has a sense of belonging, their well-being is taken care off, are able to engage in a meaningful way, and last but not least, the child is capable enough express themselves. Another example in which the educator can support the child is by doing inquiry
TPR - Storytelling and Role Play have a crucial play in contributing to effective language learning for young learners. As proved by a great number of studies, it is essential to help young improve English vocabulary. It hoped that through this study It is hoped that this study may help teachers become more aware of the role of TPR- Storytelling and Role Play in teaching English vocabulary for young learners in order to regulate their teaching methods and efforts with the purpose of improving students’ learning performance.