SW 8112-01 Role Play Presentation and Paper

Instructor: Shepard

Presentation: Students will be required to develop role-play presentations demonstrating the use of practice skills in working with agency or community groups to address a problem situation. You will sign-up to be the social work facilitator for one role-play scenario and to be an observer on a different day. Your fellow students will likely ask you to be a participant in some of the other role-play scenarios.

Role-play presentations should be about 20 minutes long, not including time for your comments and discussion after the role play (role plays involving a meeting with a supervisor may be shorter). Before doing your role-play, give a brief introduction to the problem situation. At the end, comment on how you think the role-play went and whether you covered the issues that you wanted to. It is helpful if you briefly prepare the role-play participants ahead of time so that they understand the roles they will be playing.

Paper: Students should bring a videotape to class and give it to the instructor to use in videotaping the role-play. After viewing the videotape, every student should hand in their own 2-page evaluation of the interview to the instructor identifying their use of practice skills, skills that could have been used or improved upon and other practice issues that arose in the role-play. This paper is due March 17 for organization role-plays and May 5 for community/legislative role-plays.

Points: Students will receive 5 points for the role-play presentation and 5 points for providing a brief written critique of the interview. You will not be graded on how well you conducted the interview, but you will be graded on your discussion and evaluation of the interview.

Scenarios

Organization Role Plays (March 10)

Scenario #1 Facilitate an agency team meeting to assess an agency problem and identify an

initial goal(s)

Scenario #2 Facilitate a meeting with agency staff to develop an action plan to address

an agency problem

Scenario #3 Facilitate a meeting with agency administrators to discuss a proposal and gain

their support to address a problem situation.

Scenario #4 Meet with a supervisor to discuss a problem in the work place that involves a

conflict with the supervisor (no co-facilitator for this one)

Community/ Legislative Advocacy Role Plays (April 21)

Scenario #5 Facilitate a meeting of an “action system” to develop an advocacy strategy

Scenario #6 Present a proposal to community decision-makers to gain their support

Scenario #7 Meet with a group to recruit them to be part of a coalition to influence

legislation

Scenario #8 Meet with an elected official to lobby on an issue. (no co-facilitator for this one),