Role Playing

Many people learn from doing, role playing is no exception in teaching. I have found from experience that teachers usually learn more while doing than just learning. Although you can not learn everything from role-playing, such as the hard facts of teaching, but you can learn from observing and taking part in the role of being a teacher. That is why mostly more experienced teachers are able to be better teachers. They have been in the role as a teacher and have made mistakes or good judgements and are able to learn from those experiences. In class on Monday night, a few weeks back now, we were taught in a different way from the other Monday night lecturese. We were able to learn by all participating in a activity to voice our concerns of a certain cut-back in a school. I think that I learned a lot more by being involved in that discussion because I was interacting with people instead of sitting in an uncomfortable desk listening to a professor drone on, no offense, about a topic that could be more interesting if I were able to be apart of topic. Although most people do not learn the same way, I believe that it is beneficial to have certain aspects of learning how to become, not only a teacher, but a good teacher to have students interact with each other in big or small group activities.