Respect for All Kinds of People Inside and Outside the School
American School Counselor Association
National Standard (ASCA):
Personal / Social Development.
A. Students will acquire the knowledge, attitude, and interpersonal skills to help them understand self and others
Materials
Lesson Prep.
Essential Questions:
Why is important to recognize individual and group similarities and differences in the school?
Why is important to recognize individual and group similarities and differences in the community?
Why is it important to learn to deal with human diversity?
What is the advantage of emphasizing similarities over differences?
Engagement (Hook):
THE UNTANGLE GAME (Directions attached at the end).
Instructor Procedures:
THE UNTANGLE GAME
Divide the class into groups of 8 or 10 (must be an even number). Form one group only if space is limited. Standing facing one another in a circle, instruct each student to grab the right hand of a student across from (not next to) him or her. Next, join left hands with a different person. Then, try to untangle without anyone letting go or falling down.
Debriefing:
National Standard (ASCA):
Personal / Social Development.
A. Students will acquire the knowledge, attitude, and interpersonal skills to help them understand self and others
Materials
- The Untangle Game
- The Diversity Puzzle handout
- Soft colored crayons (optional).
- Make a large CARE chart or a mini-poster as follows:
DEALING WITH DIVERSITY
Collaboration
Acceptance
Respect, and
Empathy.
Lesson Prep.
Essential Questions:
Why is important to recognize individual and group similarities and differences in the school?
Why is important to recognize individual and group similarities and differences in the community?
Why is it important to learn to deal with human diversity?
What is the advantage of emphasizing similarities over differences?
Engagement (Hook):
THE UNTANGLE GAME (Directions attached at the end).
Instructor Procedures:
- Form groups of 8 to 10 students. Play the untangle game. (See directions below).
- After the first group has successfully finished, dissolve the groups.
- Request and provide feedback for this activity.
- Introduce today’s lesson and review/teach vocabulary: Collaboration, empathy, trust, similarities,
differences, stereotype, and antagonistic. - Distribute the "Diversity Puzzle" handout. Have students answer the questions in small
groups. - A group discussion about diversity and respect follows.
- Introduce/teach the acronym CARE as a way of dealing with diversity. Discuss as a group.
- If time allows, have students color, decorate, and then cut their puzzle pieces. Provide a plastic bag to keep the pieces.
THE UNTANGLE GAME
Divide the class into groups of 8 or 10 (must be an even number). Form one group only if space is limited. Standing facing one another in a circle, instruct each student to grab the right hand of a student across from (not next to) him or her. Next, join left hands with a different person. Then, try to untangle without anyone letting go or falling down.
Debriefing:
- What was this game experience like for you?
- How can you relate this to something in your life?
- Are there situations or relationships with other people that is hard to untangle?
- What factors make it difficult to untangle these relationships?
- How can we do a better job of fixing tangled relationships?