This focuses on developing students’ ability to adjust their thoughts, emotions, and personal attitudes toward a given topic to meet new demands or circumstances, while adopting others’ ideas in whole or in parts. Children work together to create an alternative dictionary definition for a specific word. These creative entries are mixed with the official dictionary definition and then redistributed. Groups read a selected entry aloud and must explain why they can accept parts or all of it. By actively justifying their peers’ interpretations, students practice adopting new perspectives, tolerating different viewpoints, and embracing multiple valid descriptions of a single concept.

Skill focus

Primary Skill Focus

• Flexibility

Complementary/Secondary Skill Focus

• Emotional awareness (emotional regulation and communication)
• Creativity
• Problem solving
• Critical thinking
• Curiosity, sense of wonder, and openness

Age group	Student number	Duration
7 + years old	groups of 3 to 6 students,  whole class	20-40 minutes

Proposed step by step implementation of the learning activity

• Words selected from a dictionary. Each group writes an alternative entry that is identical in form and meaning to the word selected by the teacher.
• All completed entries, together with the official dictionary definition, are collected and mixed.
• Each group selects one sheet and reads the text on it.
• After reading, each group explains why the received entry can be accepted and which parts of it are agreed with, either in whole or in part. Learners are not required to accept definitions that are completely incorrect.
• The essence of the activity is that students must accept and justify their peers’ opinions.