Role-play toolkit
Welcome to Role-play Toolkit—a feast of resources designed to help you run a parliamentary role-play in your classroom. The Parliamentary Education Office (PEO) has found that the role-play is activity based learning at its best.
Role-play Toolkit is designed to make your job easier and to enrich the role-play through the provision of resources that:
- motivate students to engage in the activity
- enhance meaning and therefore learning
- facilitate an integrated curriculum
- give the role-play authenticity.
Please see DIY: Role-play in the Classroom for complete instructions and guidelines for teachers running their own classroom role-plays.
Role-play Toolkit contains the following printable resources:
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| Scripts | This section contains all the scripts you need for the PEO’s three major parliamentary role-plays: the Law-making Role-play, Question Time Role-play and Committee Role-play in either the House of Representatives or the Senate. Scripts help the role-play run itself so make sure you print them first! Each script models the language of the Parliament in a way that is easy to follow and read without loss of authenticity. |
| Quick Guides | This section is designed to help teachers understand each role-play at a glance. It includes A Quick Guide to the Law-making, Question Time and Committee Role-play in the House of Representatives and in the Senate. |
| Seating Plans | This section shows you how to turn your classroom into a chamber or committee room using nothing more than a few desks and chairs! Seating plans are provided for the Law-making, Question Time and Committee Role-play in either the House of Representatives or the Senate. |
| Make it Yourself | This section contains easy to understand instructions, diagrams and patterns for making parliamentary props and costumes including robes for the Speaker, Clerk and Serjeant-at-Arms. Download this section to fit-out your class in authentic parliamentary style! A brief explanation of the traditional attire and symbols of the chambers is also included. |
| Diagrams | This section contains several diagrams designed to make clear important parliamentary concepts such as accountability, representation and the passage of a bill. |
| Templates & Suggestions | This section contains a range of templates and suggestions to help you prepare for a PEO role-play, or even better, to help you prepare a role-play on a topic decided by you and your students. Look here to find out how to write your own bills for debate, questions to ministers and statements to present to committees and for a range of other role-play suggestions. |
| Assessment Rubrics | This section contains three assessment rubrics to guide your assessment of your students’ parliamentary knowledge, literacy skills and capacity to work with others. |
If this information does not provide all the resources that you need to run a PEO role-play or if you have a suggestion for an additional role-play resource please contact the PEO by phone, fax or email.
Ph: 02 6277 3147 or 02 6277 3508
Fax: 02 6277 5775
Email: info@peo.gov.au