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Social Awareness Strategies Professional DocSocial Awareness Strategies Professional Doc
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Transforming Education
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K - 12th
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Social & Emotional Learning
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Social Awareness Strategies

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What are the benefits of developing social awareness? Using the resource, readers learn strategies for fostering civil discourse, creating a participatory classroom, and enhancing family involvement. Scholars also take a personality assessment and form small groups to discuss what they have in common with others.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

social awareness, empathy, social-emotional learning

Additional Tags

programs

Instructional Ideas

  • Have partners discuss the difference between empathy and sympathy
  • Invite learners to design posters about social awareness 

Classroom Considerations

  • Designed as a teacher resource with strategies for supporting students' social awareness
  • Requires Internet access for several embedded links and resources 

Pros

  • Includes links to an extensive list of additional resources
  • Provides grade-specific standalone activities for elementary, middle, and high school pupils

Cons

  • None

Common Core

SL.K.1.a SL.1.1.a SL.2.1.a SL.3.1.b SL.4.1.b SL.5.1.b SL.6.1.b SL.7.1.c SL.8.1.c SL.9-10.1.a SL.11-12.1.a

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