Teaching Resources

2 hours

15 - 16

Promotion of EU citizenship, EU and democratic values and human rights
Enhancement of empathy outside school (friends, family, strangers
Development of empathic behavior at school

- a classroom (island and half-circle chairs)
- a video projector, a computer, speakers
- a white board and markers (3 colors : black, green, red)

- sheets and pens (3 different colors - black, green, red for the pupils)

Self-awareness
Self-regulation
Empathy
Internal motivation
Social skills

Reflection from a video produced by students in Terminale, as part of the masterpiece (project carried out over two years by professional classes), on bullying at school. This video was produced following an anonymous survey carried out within the school; it is inspired by real events.

Traditionally, it could be broadcast as is, in its entirety in order to make students aware of the problem of bullying.

However, we can adapt the use of this same resource, in order to develop an empathetic behavior at school by not broadcasting the entire video (tragic end) and to get the pupils to react and to propose actions to be carried out within class and high school.

Teacher presentation of the empathy-based sequence. The implementation will consist of four phases:

- a phase of observation of a harassment situation? What is creating this situation? 

- a phase of reflection on the feelings, the emotions: what can a person feel in a situation of harassment? What behaviors and attitudes has a suffering person? 

- a phase of finding solutions to avoid any situation of harassment

- a phase of peer awareness to avoid any form of harassment



Introduction to the sequence: presentation by the video creators 

- short presentation by the pupils, video creator of their work (context, objectives ...)
- the teacher remains in the background, observing 

- distribution of sheets and pens (3 per island) (the pupils are placed in islands)
- the pupils do not intervene during the video but note any comments or reactions
- viewing of the video (we cut before the end) 


We draw 3 columns on the board 


First phase: Observation of the bullying situation: in black The question is asked to the pupils who note on a sheet of paper in black what creates the bullying situation: they write down two or 3 key words: 5 minutes 

The pupils exchange freely, without feeling controlled. The adult does not make any comments. 

Sharing with the whole class: the teacher notes on the board the pupils' comments in the first column (in black) 

Second phase: the feelings, the emotions: what can people feel? feel harassed? what behaviors and attitudes do they have? The question is asked to the pupils (who are always in islands) who write down 2 to 3 key words in red on the sheet: 5 minutes 

Sharing with the whole class: the teacher notes the pupils' comments on the board (in red) : 5 minutes 


Third phase: solutions: what solutions would be possible to avoid harassment situations inside and outside the establishment? The pupils write their ideas in green on the sheet of paper (5 minutes) then stand in a U-shape to discuss together. Then sharing: the ideas are noted on the board (in green, in the third column) At the end of these three phases: the pupils react to all the words written on the board.


Fourth phase: The pupils discuss the solutions they could put in place to avoid harassment in their establishment or outside the establishment and choose an action among all the proposed actions (creation of posters, points of listening, plays, songs ...)

The evaluation should be carried out through the presentation of a student's work on a bullying case which should enable students to become aware of this problem, to express and identify feelings and emotions, to be able to manage bullying situations by adopting a empathetic behavior when faced with it within or outside the school.