Perspective taking 1: Identifying different perspectives - SEL Lesson

Use this ready-made SEL lesson focusing on the subskill of 'Perspective-Taking' to help you with social emotional learning in the classroom.

This is lesson 1 in a series of 8 and it's designed for use as one of your SEL activities with the whole class, a small group, or one-to-one. Social Awareness is one of the five components that make up CASEL's model of SEL education. To find other SEL activities, please visit our homepage and search through hundreds of SEL lessons created by educators and other experts in SEL education.

Our digital SEL lessons integrate with Pear Deck to facilitate student engagement. These lessons include interactive, age-appropriate social emotional learning activities, questions, videos, and animations for every CASEL subskill.

We could all use a bit of perspective sometimes, students included. The ability to see things from different points of view is an extremely valuable social emotional skill both in and out of the classroom. Use this ready-made SEL lesson to prioritize teaching perspective taking, boosting empathy as well as problem solving abilities among your students.