RESPECTfully Playing a Role: How to Utilize Role Playing to Solve Ethical Dilemmas: Attendee Feedback
List three things you learned.
- Visually seeing the dilemma
- Being able to “replay” the solution
- The importance of role playing in ethics
- Role playing can help victims of bullying try to resolve the issue
- Live learning
- How one choice can change the scenario
- Everyone reacts differently in a situation
- How to use role play for discussion
- Acting can be a great catalyst for teaching ethics
- Look from different perspectives
- The power of intervention
- Bystanders can make the difference
- Put yourself in their position
- Dilemmas under different categories – Right versus Right and Right versus Wrong
- Importance of allowing audience to interact and suggest solutions
- Testing these situations is a great way to look at impacts of decisions
- Some confrontations can be avoided
- Doing “nothing” is a conscientious choice
- The importance of role-playing
- Remembering that there is always more to a situation
- Take the time to figure out the best solution
- Validation is important
- Role play is powerful
- Not everything works every time
- Practice, Practice
- Role playing and theatre to help students see all perspectives!
- Be careful that I don’t appear to ignore bullying
- Role playing can help with ethical decisions
- Bullies have problems too
- We all can work together
- The idea about trying [different] scenarios out for the same situation
- Role playing is helpful
- Theatre is a good tool
- Always showing workable solutions can set people up for failure
- Theatre can be very helpful
- Power of having kids act out real situations
- A third party upstander has power
- Role playing
- Bullying is prevalent, although may not be noticed by adults
- Role play is effective to teach students ethical behavior
- Ability of the manipulation of ideas
- Discussions to have during activity
- Use of theatre
- Using role play as a teaching tool
- Don’t intervene on bullying with more bullying
- The value of theatre in ethics
- Provide several possible options & possible outcomes
- Show various scenarios
- Conversation leading to successful verbiage
- Theatre can be effective in addressing ethics
- Different techniques to stop/deal with bullying
- Group discussion is key to learning
- Role play (visual) is effective
- Bullies are also victims
- Different ways to solve problems
- There are so many possible reactions
List two things you will use
- Try out scenarios with different endings
- Always spin the positive
- Role playing
- Acting scenarios
- Teaching power of intervention
- Infuse Ethical Literacy into drama class
- Helping others understand situations
- Hashing out a problem with colleagues if necessary before talking with a student
- Role play to debrief scenarios
- Role playing with teachers (in student roles)
- Scenarios for discussions
- Vocabulary
- Advice for using theatre
- How to best use multiple scenarios
- Different discussions in different environments
- Web site
- Role playing amongst students
- Scenarios
- Call them and invite them in – plus this helps us look at all sides
- Right versus Right dilemmas
- Role playing activities
- Skits
- Put myself in others position
- Stand up to others in the hall
- Muse. Role-play
- Replay
- Practicing
- Show possible responses to solutions
- Understanding and yearning to know more
List one thing you will share
- Scenarios empower decision making
- Intervention is okay
- Empathy
- Principles behind the session
- Ideas of theatre
- Worth working with group
- Have teachers act out student roles
- Use of scenarios
- Intervention
- Putting them in others shoes
- Skits
- Scenarios
- Try out many options
- Hashing out a problem with colleagues if necessary before talking with a student
- Bully is victim, too–everyone is impacted, bully, victim, and witness–I’d educate staff to see this perspective
- Role-play






