Strategy Lesson Reflection

My strategy lesson was about using Dramatic Role-Play in the classroom. I was really surprised to see how well my classmates improvised during the lesson. I feel like students took the assignment and ran with it. Students improvised by adding their own creative components to their skits. Their creativity made the activity twice as fun and interesting. Another way they improvised was by using the internet to find images of their weather patterns to use as a background image for their play. Students also collaborated well with each other. Even though they only had five minutes to come up with a skit, all of the presentations were thoughtful and entertaining. I think that the strategy lesson also promoted student engagement.

I think that in the future, I could collect a better variety of props over time. Props used within a role-play activity are crucial aspects of the strategy lesson. The whole idea behind this strategy is to pretend that you are actually in the given scenario. For example, an umbrella would have a been a perfect prop to use in the weather team activity today. Also, I would provide more roles for students within groups. I think that if each student, within the groups, have their own roles during the activity, it holds them accountable and they will be less likely to be distracted.

An expected challenge that students encountered during the strategy lesson was the number of roles per group. There were way more than four people per group and I had only assigned four roles per group. Much to my surprise, everyone improvised again and created new roles. Students came up with more roles for other people in their group who did not have one. I thought students would question why there was not more roles assigned, but instead of questioning, they used problem-solving skills added more creativity to the activity.

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