Teaching Class Role Play

What's the difference between acting and role-playing? Something is probably role-playing if everyone present is taking part.

In any case, I've experienced an unexpectedly large amount of role-playing today. We're practicing planning and executing lessons in my Teaching class and each student is teaching a 10-minute segment of a lesson they've planned.

This is where the role-playing comes in. The first lesson segment was for a high school biology class, the next two were for kindergarten, and the fourth was middle school social studies. As an audience, we're supposed to assume the approximate behaviors and knowledge of the students of each lesson, so every ten minutes or so, we would go from knowing about chemical formulas to not being sure how addition works.

Psychologists would probably have something to say about regressing to childhood behaviors, but it's been pretty fun for the most part, and I'm looking forward to more practice lessons.