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These lessons provide an overview of role play/behavioral rehearsal. They explore how to set up a role play in the classroom, setting norms, a progression for teaching role play, and examples of how to practice.
Introduction to Role Play
Using Role Play in the Health Classroom
The use of role play or behavioral rehearsal is an effective teaching strategy that helps students practice or reinforce a health skill. Educators have theorized that children learn from participating in role plays because the technique is active, relevant and allows the students to examine the basis of their own perceptions. Not only do they develop their own self confidence in using a health skill, but they also learn how others react to various attitudes and behaviors.
Role Play is an effective technique that allows a student to practice a health skill in a safe environment where they can develop self confidence in using the skill when they need it in a real-life situation.