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Step In, Step Out, Step Back
This strategy aims to provide students with an opportunity to understand social and cultural perspectives from a character or situation that they are analyzing.
Step In, Step Out, Step Back
Summary
This strategy invites students to take on other's perspectives (religious, linguistic, cultural, class generational, etc.); help them to identify individuals with differing/varying perspectives in a situation, provide textual evidence for thoughts, values, and feelings these individuals may hold; and explain how roles and relationships shape their perspectives.
Procedure
Choose a person or character in a situation that you want your students to analyze.
Step In: Based on the information, what do you think the person or character might feel, believe, know, or experience?
Step Out: What other information do you need to understand this person or character’s perspective better? Remember there is always more to understand a person than the first impression.
Step Back: After some time exploring, what do you notice about your own perspective and what it takes to take somebody else’s?
Project Zero. (2019). Step In - Step Out - Step Back. Retrieved May 13, 2021, from http://pz.harvard.edu/thinking-routines
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Placement In Lesson
- Engage/Opening
- Evaluate/Assessment
- Explain/Closing
- Explore/Learning Activity
- Extend/Additional Learning Activity
Intention/Purpose
- Analyze
- Compare & Contrast
- Critical Thinking
- Interpret
- Reflection
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