Presents a lesson plan for a second-grade class project. Suggests that the students will learn to identify the word "famous," complete a timeline for a famous person, learn facts about the person, and express individual thoughts and feelings. Explains the steps involved in the presentation of a living museum where students portray famous…

Provides insights into the benefits of using role playing in the context of cross-grade educational activities. Demonstrates these benefits by giving transcripts of interviews with fifth and sixth graders as well as second and third graders who participated in such activities. (HB)

Explains a model that can be used for debriefing after a highly interactive training activity such as role playing or simulation games. Elements of the model include (1) general decompression; (2) factual information from the activity; (3) inferences; (4) transfer, i.e., from the activity to real world situations; (5) generalizations; and (6)…

Thirty-three government managers being trained in feedback skills wrote critical incidents about their least effective subordinate (LES) as pre- and posttests and discussed problems with the LES. Compared to 32 controls who received no training, there were significant increases in feedback skills and lower tendency to attribute LES' problem…

Describes a learning activity that allows participants to role play both dysfunctional and constructive roles during a group task, illustrating how group success depends on the attitudes and actions of its members. Includes instructions for the learning activity, questions for debriefing, and follow-up activities. (LP)

Outlines ways in which role-plays can be conducted more effectively. This description is intended to enable clinical teachers to use role-plays constructively and to adapt them to the individual needs of teachers and students. (PR)

Two studies had children role-play successful and unsuccessful tasks to test the hypothesis that both criticism and praise that conveyed person or trait judgments could send a message of contingent worth and undermine subsequent coping. Found that 5- to 6-year olds displayed significantly more "helpless" responses after person criticism or praise…

Suggests that using the format of the planning public inquiry as a model for a learning activity provides geography students, usually working in teams, with the opportunity to investigate environmental issues from a particular point of view and to present their case as an oral presentation and written report. (DSK)

Outlines a Year 10 unit on teaching "Romeo and Juliet" based on standard experiential conventions which include the following: (1) Teacher in Role, (2) Soundscaping, (3) Freeze Frames, (4) Alter Egos, (5) Hot Seating, and (6) Role Playing. Suggests that these conventions can be applied to the study of any Shakespearean play. (NH)

Presents a role-playing activity designed to teach participants about the relationships between different members of an aquatic food chain. (WRM)

Describes an investigation of the effectiveness of a role-play activity used to help secondary science students learn about color subtraction. Finds that pupils were better able to understand the abstract scientific concepts after the activity. (Author/WRM)

This article discusses how parents and educators can best help highly creative students when they need emotional support. Strategies include: encouraging creation of products, using creative visualization strategies, using role playing situations, providing support groups experiences, and using direct instruction to explain what may be going on…

This study examined the independent and joint effects of expected developmental assessment strategies (self-administered, other-administered, and no assessment) and creative personality on the creative performance of 68 college students who performed a role playing task in a laboratory setting. The highest creative performances were exhibited when…

Social skills deficits and excesses are a defining aspect of mental retardation (MR). Research indicates that there is an established relationship between social skills and maladaptive behaviors. A number of studies demonstrate that the social competence of individuals with MR and comorbid psychopathology can be enhanced with social skills…

Using role play and verbal-report data, this study investigates the sequential organization of politeness strategies of 24 learners of Spanish and whether the learners' ability to negotiate and mitigate a refusal was influenced by length of residence in the target community. Refusal sequences were examined throughout the interaction head acts,…