Honoring Multiple Perspectives: A Practice in Reflection and Empathy

Give your students a chance to practice empathy, consider scenarios from alternate perspectives, think critically, and reflect.

This Social-Emotional Learning activity comes with 5 scenarios, each with 5 stakeholder's perspectives to consider either as a written activity or class discussion.

Suggestions for Use:

• Assign roles to small groups of student for discussion. Allow each group to present their stakeholder's perspective.
• Assign roles to students as a writing prompt before whole class discussion.
• As a class, review how each stakeholder might feel about the scenario presented. Note the similarities and differences in what each stakeholder values.
• Allow each student to have a chance in different roles as you progress through the scenarios.

Great for gifted learners. Appropriate for the start of school year activity to build compassion and community.