{"id":7517,"date":"2017-08-31T05:14:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T20:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibpsych.themantic-education.com\/?p=7517"},"modified":"2017-08-31T05:14:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T20:14:05","slug":"lesson-idea-the-love-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/2017\/08\/31\/lesson-idea-the-love-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson Idea: &#8220;The Love Lab&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>This lesson idea works well with the lesson &#8220;Positive Communication&#8221; in 5.3 of Love and Marriage (Chapter 5).<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I used to hate role plays as a student. I loathe them now when I&#8217;m on a Pro-D workshop. So naturally, as a big mean teacher, I love to get my students to do them! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<h2>The activity&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>In groups of three, students are to plan a short reenactment of two scenes from Gottman&#8217;s Love Lab (page 296-97 of Chapter 5). One student is the researcher while the other two are the couple. One scene should represent how a &#8220;non-regulated&#8221; couple might discuss the three topics that were part of the interview guide:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What they did during the day<\/li>\n<li>A topic that is the source of conflict in the relationship<\/li>\n<li>A mutually agreed on pleasant topic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The other scene involves the same questions, but an acting out of how the &#8220;regulated&#8221; couples might have discussed the questions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7856\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7856\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7856\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/08\/bella_rose_arts_centre_stage.jpg?resize=420%2C280&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Bella_Rose_Arts_Centre_Stage\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/08\/bella_rose_arts_centre_stage.jpg?w=3888&amp;ssl=1 3888w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/08\/bella_rose_arts_centre_stage.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/08\/bella_rose_arts_centre_stage.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/08\/bella_rose_arts_centre_stage.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/08\/bella_rose_arts_centre_stage.jpg?w=1572&amp;ssl=1 1572w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/08\/bella_rose_arts_centre_stage.jpg?w=2358&amp;ssl=1 2358w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Having students convert the information from one medium (e.g. the textbook) to another (e.g. a short acting skit) can really engage students and gets them thinking carefully about the content.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have my students plan out their scenes and have a couple of rehearsals, but I don&#8217;t ask them to perform them (unless they want to), which comes as a source of relief for many. \u00a0I&#8217;m not really worried in their acting as the main purpose of the activity is to get students to comprehend:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gottman&#8217;s methodology and details of &#8220;the Love Lab&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>What is meant by the terms &#8220;regulated&#8221; and &#8220;non-regulated&#8221; couple<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once they can grasp these ideas, they are then ready to tackle the guiding question which is about how positive communication can increase marital satisfaction.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Teaching Tip: I actually adapted the guiding question for this lesson in my own class to read: &#8220;How does Gottman and Levenson&#8217;s (1992) study show that positive communication can increase marital satisfaction?&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Alternatives<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found that the &#8220;conversion&#8221; paradigm is an excellent way to get students to really think about the content they&#8217;re learning. The above activity is really suitable for &#8220;the actors.&#8221; Here are some other ideas you could adapt the same idea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For Artists:\u00a0<\/strong>Have students transform the written textbook material into a visual form (e.g. a poster). You can give them a guideline like, &#8220;you&#8217;re only allowed 5 words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For Writers:\u00a0<\/strong>Students have to write a short story based on two different couples. The dialogue in the story should reflect the interactions of the couple (regulated and non-regulated) and should also somehow include the three topics of discussion (there doesn&#8217;t need to be an interview &#8211; they can get creative). They might not get a chance to finish writing their story, but the process of coming up with the plan should be enough.<\/p>\n<p>These conversion tasks will ensure that students are reading the text carefully and trying to comprehend the information in order to convert it to a different medium.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Simple Differentiation<\/h2>\n<p>So what you could actually do is give students the choice of which group they want to be in: actors, artists or writers. Whenever I do this I prefer not to tell them the activity for each group, just the name. I like doing this because if there are any students like me when I was a kid, they could escape the acting and do something they love (writing stories), and our learning outcomes are still the same.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>When introducing John Gottman&#8217;s &#8220;Love Lab&#8221; research yesterday I found myself for the third consecutive topic saying, &#8220;I think this might be my favourite.&#8221; I&#8217;ve found it&#8217;s pretty easy to engage students with this material and this really simple activity helps them to comprehend the new material in the textbook.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thoughts? Can you see a way this might be improved?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This lesson idea works well with the lesson &#8220;Positive Communication&#8221; in 5.3 of Love and Marriage (Chapter 5). I used to hate role plays as a student. I loathe them now when I&#8217;m on a Pro-D workshop. 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