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  • What is it?

    A person's ability to consider the perspective of others and to understand the feelings, thoughts and behaviour of someone else.

     How does it show?

    • Being able to show and understand how pupils are feeling.

    • Being able to see the pupils' perspective.

    • Being able to ask others (students) how they are feeling and thinking.

    • Being able to see differences and similarities in the feelings of the pupils.

    • Understand the non-verbal language of the pupils.

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    What can we do to stimulate?

    • Watch and reflect on the movie trailer “inside out”

    The animated film ‘Inside Out’  follows five personified emotions: Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust. Filmmakers consulted psychologists and neuroscientists in order to achieve greater accuracy in their portrayal of the mind. It can be a useful and enjoyable tool to help explore social awareness.

    • Portray some different emotions in class and ask pupils to guess what they are.

    • Use and recognise different emotions.

    • Active listening: giving full attention when others speak.

    • Reflect on what we can do to be a mediator of social awareness.

    • Consider and reflect on some dilemmatic situations. What is the problem in the following situation? How do the pupils feel? Could we improve the situation? What could our role be?

    Situation 1. One pupil is finding it very difficult to make friends. Today you saw them isolated, in a corner, while others had fun playing together.

    Situation 2. One pupil threatens to react furiously when their peers call them a ‘sissy’.

    Situation 3. In a student presentation, one pupil is visibly shaken when they realise that their parents did not attend.

    Year-6-children in Cornwall, UK has produced a book called “Make My Day”. They have also produced some postcards that ask two questions - “What makes your day?” and “How can you make someone else's day?”