This lesson teaches students about listening with understanding and empathy. It begins with a discussion about homelessness to build empathy. Students then define empathy and identify what it looks, sounds, and feels like through examples from the teacher. They practice applying empathy in the classroom and community by discussing situations and giving examples. The lesson concludes by having students reflect on what empathy is and providing their own examples of empathetic listening.
This lesson teaches students about listening with understanding and empathy. It begins with a discussion about homelessness to build empathy. Students then define empathy and identify what it looks, sounds, and feels like through examples from the teacher. They practice applying empathy in the classroom and community by discussing situations and giving examples. The lesson concludes by having students reflect on what empathy is and providing their own examples of empathetic listening.
This lesson teaches students about listening with understanding and empathy. It begins with a discussion about homelessness to build empathy. Students then define empathy and identify what it looks, sounds, and feels like through examples from the teacher. They practice applying empathy in the classroom and community by discussing situations and giving examples. The lesson concludes by having students reflect on what empathy is and providing their own examples of empathetic listening.
This lesson teaches students about listening with understanding and empathy. It begins with a discussion about homelessness to build empathy. Students then define empathy and identify what it looks, sounds, and feels like through examples from the teacher. They practice applying empathy in the classroom and community by discussing situations and giving examples. The lesson concludes by having students reflect on what empathy is and providing their own examples of empathetic listening.
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Mini-lesson: Introduction to Listening with Understanding
and Empathy Objective: Students Will Be Able To identify what Listening with Understanding and Empathy looks, sounds, and feels like.
Lesson Cycle Notes
Do Now For 12 minutes, teacher will facilitate
● What is houselessness? What do you think are students into shifting their opinions some causes of houselessness? What effects and perspectives into more happen to a community when there is an empathic views. increasing number of people becoming houseless? ● Play “What Would You Do” video on actors taunting houselessness ● Empathic questions: What do you think the person who’s houseless was feeling? How might they feel about the opinions of our community? What might houselessness feel like?
Introduction to new material For 20 minutes, students will guess
● Define empathy: Empathy is holding a deep on their own examples, and then will understanding for people and their experiences follow teacher to write down class and perspectives examples. ● Prompt students, take 3 minutes to silently answer and write down: ○ What does this deep understanding look like? ○ What does empathy sound like? ○ What does empathy feel like? ● Give students examples of what Listening with understanding and empathy looks like, sounds like, and feels like. Have students write down notes of examples ○ Looks like: nodding, raising eyebrows, attentive attitude ○ Sounds like: One mic one voice, phrases like: I understand, thank you for sharing, I see ○ Feels like: heart warming connection, a sense of support and care
Guided Practice For 15 minutes, students will work
● Let’s identify how empathy can be found inside with partners (or individually) to the classroom complete this portion. Teacher and ● Now, let’s identify how listening with assitant will work with challenged understanding and empathy can be found students to guide their ideas into outside the classroom written expression (answer in full ● Video on Empathy: Brene Brown on Empathy sentence, stay on task)
Independent Practice Teacher will monitor students as
● Prompt: Give three examples of people they silently and independently Listening with Empathy and Understanding. answer the prompt. 8 minute Then, explain how they looked, sounded, and exercise. how they might have felt given those factors.
Closing (exit Ticket) Allow students the remaining 10
● What is Empathy? minutes of class to answer the daily ● What does Listening with Understanding look, exit ticket feel, and sound like? Please give one example for each