Teacher: Amanda Nickless

School: Poudre High School

Grade Level: College

Content Area: All

Title: Step Inside: Demonstrating Thinking through Perspective Taking

Lesson: 1 of 1
Content Standards:
Respond thoughtfully to diverse perspectives; synthesize comments, claims, and evidence
made on all sides of an issue; determine what additional information or research is required to
deepen the investigation or complete the task (CCSS: SL. 11-12.1b)
Understandings:
Acknowledge and appreciate that a vast amount of differing perspectives exist.
Hypothesize what is being experienced, thought, valued and wondered about by another person
or thing (specifically a student).
Empathize with different perspectives and reflect on how these perspectives alter the
experience of people or things.
How this can be applied in content area.
Inquiry Questions:
How is the ability to take on different perspectives important in any content area classroom?
What are some ways that perspective taking activities could be implemented into your
classroom?
Evidence Outcomes:
I can:
1) Describe the Step Inside strategy from Making Thinking Visible.
2) Participate thoughtfully in a demonstration of this activity by taking the perspective of a future
student.
3) Relate Step Inside to an activity I would do in my own classroom.
Assessments:
1) Talk with peers about the questions involved with Step Inside

2) Work with a partner on identifying the perspective of a future student, display this through
writing and verbal sharing
3) Discuss implementing this strategy into your classroom
Significant Vocabulary:
Step Inside: The strategy from Making Thinking Visible that asks students to take the
perspective of a person or thing
Perspective: the way in which an object or person views their surroundings, this includes their
thoughts, feelings, values, and wonderings