Handout 6:
Role Play:
Observations and Discussion Guidelines

Instructions
As observers of the role play, watch for answers to the questions listed below. Record your observations. Look for both the verbal and non-verbal messages of the role players. When the role play stops, be prepared to share your observations.

Observation and Discussion Questions

• What techniques did Roxy White, the Head Start staff member, use to initiate the discussion?
  
  
• How was a plan for achieving the family's goals developed? Did it differ from the six-step approach Was it similar? In what ways?
  
  
• Do you think that the plan developed will help the family achieve its goals?
  
  
• What would you do differently than Roxy White? What would you do the same?
  
  
• What feelings do you think Mrs. Tania Greene is experiencing at the end of the visit?
  
  
• Mr. Jon Greene?
• Wesley Nash?
• Ellen Greene?
• Roxy White?

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