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What is it?
What is it?
The abilities to make caring and constructive choices about personal behavior and social interactions across diverse situations. This includes the capacities to consider ethical standards and safety concerns and to evaluate the benefits and consequences of various actions for personal, social, and collective well-being.
Such as:
• Demonstrating curiosity and open-mindedness
• Identifying solutions for personal and social problems
• Learning to make a reasoned judgment after analyzing information, data, facts
• Anticipating and evaluating the consequences of one’s actions
• Recognizing how critical thinking skills are useful both inside & outside of school
• Reflecting on one’s role to promote personal, family, and community well-being
• Evaluating personal, interpersonal, community, and institutional impacts
Students with strengths in Decision Making
Students with strengths in Decision Making
Are adept at accurately recognizing when they have encountered a problem
Successfully analyze a situation from a variety of angles, including how and why the problem arose
Possess the ability to identify possible options and explore the potential consequences of each
Approach problems through an ethical and moral lens
Take the time to evaluate how successfully they identified, analyzed, and solved a problem
Students with Weaknesses in Decision Making
Students with Weaknesses in Decision Making
Have difficulty thinking through all the parts of a problem
Make impulsive decisions without thinking through the consequences
Be unable to recognize problems due to issues with social communication
Be unaware of the different perspectives of people affected by their decisions
Struggle to reflect on the reasoning or alternatives for their choices after the fact
General Strategies
General Strategies
Encourage listening skills as it relates to being open-minded to other opinions. Let your students share their views on current events or relevant topics. In order to arrive at a fully educated decision, we have to be open to hearing and exploring all sides before cementing our position.
Avoid rescuing. Decision-making grows stronger each time students have to navigate a tricky situation on their own–making a poor decision, facing the natural consequences, and then reliving a similar situation, with new choices and lessons gathered from the first unsuccessful experience is possibly the most lasting way to learn this skill.
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