Goal/Objective Role-Play Giving the student a partner, and then do a role-playing activity. The goal is to help the student have more social interactions with other students within the class. The students with emotional behavior disorder have difficulty establishing a variety of relationships. This will also allow the student to get out of their comfort zone and do an activity that requires movement. When to use this strategy This strategy can be used in many and most cases with students who have emotional behavior disorder. You can use this with a student who is very unmotivated and unwilling to learn and speak with peers. Having peer relationships and doing work with a seat partner is very important for emotional behavior disorder students. Role playing will allow the students to get out of their comfort zone with a peer to learn and maybe make a new friend in class. Step by step instruction- How 1. Students will be assigned a partner. to use this in a English 2. They will read an article about a time in history. classroom. You will partner 3. The students will then take time to create their own with a classmate to teach them role play scenarios. your strategy so be explicit and 4. They will then preform the role play to the teacher provide a sample for your and only the teacher. (this was the student does not partner. get embarrassed in front of the class) Assessment- How could this This strategy is a good way to assess the student because strategy be used to evaluate they must act out the role play to the teacher. This will be a student learning? good way to see how the student understands the information and if they got the correct concepts of the event. My concept area is History so this would be a very good activity in my classroom. There are many things that can be acted out in history such as battles, specific events, and even acting out things people did in history. Assessing a student this way will allow for the student to get out of their comfort zone and be in a more social interacting activity in class. Citation http://do2learn.com/disabilities/CharacteristicsAndStrategies /EmotionalDisturbance_Strategies.html