Role Play as an Effective Learning Strategy

Role-play is an effective and active learning strategy because it helps in encouraging the otherwise passive learners to participate and gives the learners the drive to do things and also to remember what they have learnt. It helps in ensuring success and also making learning enjoyable. It also helps the teacher to know the learner more. It helps the learner to appreciate the experience of the characters they are playing. The learners get to relate Education with experience and at the same time, it promotes collaboration.
When it comes to a project, the teacher has to ensure that the roles are well spelt out and that each member of the group understands the role they have to play and what is expected of them. Role playing is not a difficult thing to incorporate in a lesson because our learners only have to assume a character for that moment. They have already witnessed what people do in real life  and taking on role play should be an imitation of the real world, the very people they have met and are meeting in their lives. Taking them to carry out their own observation of the characters is another way in which they can learn about the characters they have to play.
For instance in a Literature lesson, it is easy to get the learners to take up roles of characters within the  play. When they take on these roles, it helps them to understand the texts more. They get conversant with the plot of the play and the characters as well. It also helps them to remember  the content.