Goa Aided August Activity-Exploring Democracy

1. To learn about different ways of decision making like autocratic, democratic, etc. through situations at schools. 

Collaboration, Communication 

Equality 

Notebooks and pens 

1. Ask President and Vice President to write down the script on a page given by the teacher from the Annexure 1 – Role Play Script. 
2. Teacher can select the students to play roles as per the script. 
3. Ask President and Vice President to distribute the dialogues to students to get prepared before the main activity day.  

Estimated Time:30 mins 

Role play – 20 Mins 

1. Teacher will invite selected students to present the roleplay to the students and ask other students to observe the role play carefully and get ready for the discussion after the activity. 

Discussion – 10 Mins 

2. The teacher will then ask students the following questions. 

1. What did you understand from the role play? 
2. How was situation 2 different from situation 1? 
3. What elements of situation 2 show democracy? 

NOTE - If time permits, teacher can give Office Bearer opportunity to do conclude this activity as mentioned below. Incase if time is short, invite the office bearer to ask the students – What did they learn from the activity? 

Office Bearers will divide the class into two groups. One to be represented by each office bearer. (or as per rows if the class size is big) Each bench will write 1 situation that shows democracy and 1 situation that doesn’t show democracy, as per their experiences at home, school or daily life. Give them 5 minutes for this. 

Ask randomly any students from each group to share answers.  

(Teacher will support & facilitate for office bearer for correct answers) 

Some examples for Teacher’s and Office Bearer reference – 

Teacher will summarize the following points – 

• We emphasized two different styles of decision making, in one direct decision was taken, while in other everyone had a chance to take part. 
• In democracy, you get chance to share your view, listening to each other, respecting different viewpoints, but it does not guarantee your view will always be chosen. 
• Also remember, while some decisions are made collectively, but some decisions authorities make for school’s discipline and welfare. 

For this activity, the following can be updated by office bearers on the wall. 

• Office Bearer concluding the session – examples can be put up. 
• Role Play scripts. 

• Keep the role play simple, no requirement of dressing up or numerous practice sessions. 
• Objective of role play is to present the situation so learning discussion can be done. 
• In case, of very few students like less than 5-6 students, you can read out the role play as two situations. (To be done only in case of a smaller number of students) 

For activity photos to be shared to engagement officers, please share clear pictures of  

• Students doing the Roleplay – both groups (2 photos) 
• Office Bearer Recap (2 photos) 
• Desh Apnayen Wall (2 photos) 

To collect the feedback of the activity, IVR call will be made to you, or you can make the call. The following script will be played for you. This is given here for your reference purpose, so you can choose the alternative as appropriate. 

1) Which Grade activity feedback you want to give in this call?  

Press 1 – for Grade 6  

Press 2 – for Grade 7  

For incoming calls Q.2 will not be asked as teacher need to only call after activity completion  

For outgoing call, please ask Q.2   

2) Have you completed the activity of this month?  

Press 1 – If Yes  

Press 2 – if No  

3) How was the overall activity experience in the class?  

Press 1 – for Good  

Press 2 – for Average  

Press 3 – for Needs Improvement  

4) Have you submitted this activity’s pictures/videos to the respective engagement officer?  

Press 1 - for Yes   

Press 2 – for No  

5)Do you want to give feedback for any other grade?  

Press 1 - Yes, repeat the process from Question 1-5  

Press 2 – No, thank you for your time, your submission is recorded successfully.  

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Annexure 1 – Role Play Script