Role Playing Activity

The role playing activity we participated in on Monday night was an interesting way to learn information. I think that the way things were presented made students able to get emotionally involved in what was going on and they might have taken more from this activity then they would have from a lecture. I believe this way of presenting information wouldn't be good for trying to teach facts to students but that it would work better to teach students a concept or idea. The activity allowed students to share their opinion and hear other students opinions which I think is essential in learning. I think that it may have worked better to have had the students read about No Child Left Behind or hear a lecture on it first and then do the activity. This would have allowed us to know more about the legislation before we tried another way of learning information. Overall it was really nice to learn in a different way on Monday night. A lot of classes can get boring or old really fast because the information is presented in the same way every time. I think it's important in a classroom to switch things up and teach in different ways so the students don't get bored and you can reach more students. I think that if students emotions are involved in learning they will learn more or remember the information better.