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Act-outs

Materials required
Implementation procedure
Strategy in practice

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  1. Provide students with a topic for them to act out.

  2. Provide guidelines for the act-out, such as minimum or maximum number of students in an act-out (if applicable), time allocated for each act-out, etc.

  3. Provide the space and resources as required by the students.

  4. At the end of each act-out, thank the students for their participation and elicit responses and questions from other students to note their observations.

John teaches life skills to tenth grade students. Today’s topic of the day is communication. John presents a communication scenario to the class and asks the students to get into groups of three. He gives the groups 10 minutes to flesh out the scenario, assign roles, and prepare a three-minute act-out of a scenario focused on communication strategies. He sets a timer to ensure that the act-out doesn’t go beyond the allocated time.

 

At the end of each act-out, he thanks the participating students for their performance and then asks the observing students to share their thoughts and observations. John then builds off of these observations to drive the key learning points around communication.

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