Response to Role Playing activity

I feel that this activity does open up us as students/teachers to know how some people are oppressed or looked down on upon by other people that have more advantages than others (business owners, high achieving parents looking down on low achieving parents, and the Teachers Union). I felt that this session was very effective because often as students we will not get to know these emotion-filled situations before our first year of teaching.

Do enthusiastic teachers make subject's more interesting?

Whether or not an enthusiastic teacher can make a subject more interesting completely depends on the student. Personally I have always enjoyed school but have been most interested in the subjects where the teacher had been humorous and would incorporated some sort of enjoyable twist on the teaching of the subject(s). On the flip side I had also encountered student from those classes that had zero connection to what was going on and would still refuse to do anything in the classroom. Is the a reflection on the teacher? I like to think not.