Scenario for Role Play 2
Teacher role
Eric is a five-year old kindergartner. His father is a full-time college student and his mother works full-time. Eric is enrolled in a day-care center when he is not at school. He is away from home for over eight hours a day five days a week. He is extremely aggressive and cannot keep his hands off the girls. He touches, hugs, and fake kisses them. He has been caught enacting his view of lovemaking with girls on several different occasions. Eric has been chasing the girls at recess and you decide you need to talk to him.
Considerations
- Possible background information
- Behavioral causes
- Possible solutions
- Consider theories, models, or other information used to help guide your decision making
- Create a script for talking with Eric
Student role - Eric
You are a five-year old kindergartner. Your father is a full-time college student and your mother works full-time. When you are not at school you are at the day-care center. You are away from home for over eight hours a day five days a week. You think your mother and father are really great and want to spend as much time with them as possible. You have no idea why the teacher wants to talk to you. You have been modeling behavior you have seen at home and/or on television. You enjoy chasing your classmates, particularly the girls. They giggle, scream, and some tease you and want you to chase them at recess.
Teacher - Suggestions
Suggestions to encourage change from self-limiting behaviors to mastery oriented behaviors. See Conversations to change behavior
and possible verbal interactions and interventions.
Short term
- Tell the student their behavior is usually not acceptable in public.
- Discuss good and bad touches.
Long term
- Discuss good and bad touches.
- Teach the student how to interact with other children appropriately to meet their social needs.
- Could meet with the parent(s) and discuss the problem.
- Could refer the parent(s) to a counselor or psychiatrist for family counseling.
- If the behavior does not stop the parent(s) could be notified and informed that if the behavior does not stop, the child will be removed from the other children.
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