{"data":{"ID":1336,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1730135682,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Authentically Building Empathy in Elementary and Middle School Lessons","Handle":"authentically_building_empathy_in_elementary_and_middle_school_lessons","ShortDescription":"In this conversation, we will explore the role empathy plays in the Design Thinking Process. We will look at creating lessons that juggle standards and interdisciplinary connections, while still including the empathy component.","Description":"In this conversation we will dive into how to build empathy into a lesson plan without sacrificing all the other important elements of a given lesson, including objectives and interdisciplinary connections. Attendees will experience a mini version of an elementary-aged design thinking activity, discuss the importance of teaching empathy across all disciplines, and brainstorm ways to meet objectives with empathy-driven lessons. Attendees will then be given time to adapt a lesson they currently teach to include a client to build empathy in their own classrooms.","Link":["https:\/\/sites.google.com\/rashi.org\/kol-lab\/home"],"Audience":["Middle School","Elementary School"],"Practice":"5 min: Introduction to a model design thinking challenge for young students. \r\n10 min: Attendees will build \r\n5-7 min: I will show a video of a sample Grade 1 lesson that I adapted to include the empathy step (potentially the same challenge as the attendees just completed, but maybe not). Then there will be a small frontal piece where I talk about the importance of empathy for SEL and how client-based design problems address this skill. \r\n20 min: Attendees will participate in an activity in small groups where they rotate through posters with objectives\/skills and brainstorm how to incorporate empathy and a client.\r\n30 min: Attendees will revamp a lesson they currently teach to include empathy\r\n10 min: Share out in small groups","Presenter":["Melissa Rosenblatt"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Rashi School"],"PresenterEmail":["mrosenblatt@rashi.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":178,"ScheduleLocationID":34,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":12}}