- Acting out pair programming interactions through a role-playing can make the lessons more memorable to students than a list of rules.
- Pick a student in your class, or ask for a volunteer, to help you with perform the role-play.
- Explain to the student what role they will be playing and the types of things you’ll be saying during the skit.
- Spend 2-3 minutes role-playing for the class. Below are some scenarios to try out where the team refers to you and your student actor.
- Effective pair programming examples:
- The team works together to solve a problem.
- The team checks with each other to see what they should do next.
- The team shares ideas with each other.
- Ineffective pair programming examples:
- The navigator takes the keyboard and mouse.
- The navigator commands the driver.
- The navigator is unengaged and doesn’t respond to the driver’s questions.
- After you finish the role-play skit, call on students to note the positive and negative interactions they observed.
- When you observe students demonstrating positive or negative behaviors that were included in the role-play skit, draw attention to it.
- Use these moments as a reminder for a student and then ask them how other people might have been feeling in that situation or in that role play.
- You can start this conversation by saying to the student, "Does this seems similar to what we saw in the role-play yesterday?"
