Perspective Taking
We discussed our definitions of perspective. Here are some of our responses:
How someone sees something.
How someone interprets a situation.
Having the same experience with different thoughts about it.
Doing the same thing but liking it differently.
How someone sees it in their own way.
How someone looks and sees something.
They way you think about something.
The way you see and hear things.
Remember the activity where we each drew what we saw? Some of us saw the face of the Jack-o-Lantern while others couldn't see the face at all. Artists and photographers use perspective to make things interesting. They can make things look really close or really far away. the important thing to remember is that perspective changes depending on where we are.
Perspective influences our social situations because it is how we understand why another person acts or feels the way they do. Remember when we had the stick people and we filled in their feelings boxes, thinking bubbles, and speech bubbles? Were they all the same? They were all quite different. Some of us thought the people were upset or angry while others thought they were confused. Some of us thought it was about two students and others placed a teacher in the scene. Each of us has our own experiences that influence our perspective.
When dealing with perspective we have to remember what we have learned about "Thinking of You, Thinking of Me". We need to think about how the other person will think of us. Are our actions what they expect to see? If they are unexpected behaviors, are we ready for the consequences of those actions. Remember every action has a consequence. We can control our actions to receive positive or negative consequences. The best way to get expected reactions and positive consequences is to think ahead of time how the other person will respond and plan our actions accordingly.
How someone sees something.
How someone interprets a situation.
Having the same experience with different thoughts about it.
Doing the same thing but liking it differently.
How someone sees it in their own way.
How someone looks and sees something.
They way you think about something.
The way you see and hear things.
Remember the activity where we each drew what we saw? Some of us saw the face of the Jack-o-Lantern while others couldn't see the face at all. Artists and photographers use perspective to make things interesting. They can make things look really close or really far away. the important thing to remember is that perspective changes depending on where we are.
Perspective influences our social situations because it is how we understand why another person acts or feels the way they do. Remember when we had the stick people and we filled in their feelings boxes, thinking bubbles, and speech bubbles? Were they all the same? They were all quite different. Some of us thought the people were upset or angry while others thought they were confused. Some of us thought it was about two students and others placed a teacher in the scene. Each of us has our own experiences that influence our perspective.
When dealing with perspective we have to remember what we have learned about "Thinking of You, Thinking of Me". We need to think about how the other person will think of us. Are our actions what they expect to see? If they are unexpected behaviors, are we ready for the consequences of those actions. Remember every action has a consequence. We can control our actions to receive positive or negative consequences. The best way to get expected reactions and positive consequences is to think ahead of time how the other person will respond and plan our actions accordingly.