Role Play

 Roll on to the role play

What does our problem look like?

To further break down our problem we dusted off those acting skills again and took up roles to show how the problem affected the stakeholders identified.

I got to work with Pip who was focusing on providing higher order skills and questions to her students. I played Nick a typical disillusioned teen with the weight of the world on my shoulders, subtly implying a lack of direction from home through facial ticks and ...no I was just Nick the student. We looked at simple and higher order thinking through questioning. Pip asked simple questions which I was able to answer then responded with shoulder shrugs when things got deeper.

In my role-play we looked at my problem from 2 perspectives. Lock down and how the caregiver would support and engage with the learning and out of lock down where the caregiver was too busy or had other things they were doing that they valued more.

The activity showed that through parody I could identify my perceptions. Whether or not they are reality is still to be proved but the team agreed that this was also what they perceived about the issues we identified.

We had to consider why our problem was a problem and how other stakeholders feel, act and may perceive things.