Sport to Life Lesson of The Week
Lead #1: Thinking of Others
This week, we explored our lesson: Thinking of Others. In the Sport to Life methodology, Thinking of Others is showing sensitivity and being compassionate to those around us. The goal of this lesson is to help the kids start to think about those around them and consider their thoughts, ideas, and feelings.
Learning to think of others is an important skill that helps us build empathy, strengthen leadership, improve problem-solving, and enhance our communication skills.
We aim to put this Sport to Life Lesson in practice with the use of challenges in play that will get kids thinking about their teammates and consider their wants and needs.
Sole mate: Challenge the group to find someone with a similar shoe size and partner up with them for a 60-second interview. During this interview, the kids need to learn how their partner is doing during the session and how they can help support them during the activities.
Superstar spotlight: Use this challenge as a way to get kids to consider and recognize the positive actions of others and ‘spotlight’ them for it.
Nice Ninjas: This challenge engages the kids in the task of trying to help out their teammates around them, without being noticed or recognized for it. The goal is to try and encourage doing something nice for someone by identifying what they might need and helping them for the sake of helping them, not for recognition.
Thoughtful thinkers: Task 3-4 kids at a time to be thoughtful thinkers of their groups or pairs. Thoughtful thinkers have the responsibility of making decisions on behalf of their group/pair. Now, it's important to help them understand that to be thoughtful thinkers, they need to know about how their decisions impact others and if they are deciding something for other people, what their needs are.
Champion challenge: This challenge sets kids up to outwardly support their friends and their ideas. Challenge the kids to ‘champion’ the ideas of their friends, rather than their own wants and needs. This challenge has the end goal of giving kids the opportunity to think of others and what they might need.
Of course, Kids may need some extra help in learning this lesson through the challenges we've given them. That's why we learned that there are adaptations that we can do to these lessons to help kids master them and understand the lesson of the week.
