SW 8112-872 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. Most students will work in
pairs. Each student in the pair will be “social workers” who are working to
address a problem situation and will ask other members of the class to be in
their role play. If you would prefer not to work in a “pair” there will be a
couple of scenarios available for you to develop on your own. 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 4)
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 8)
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),