Extension Activities
Responsible Decision Making | Grades 9-12
Learning Goal 2: Applies and evaluates decision-making skills to engage in a variety of situations.
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Benchmark 1: Regularly demonstrate use of systematic decision-making, by identifying a decision, gathering information, and assessing alternative resolutions.
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Read current events and discuss how a decisions was made and evaluate the quality of the decision against a clearly defined criteria (e.g., did the individual appear to follow a good decision- making strategy?).
Benchmark 2: Identify and ask systematic questions that clarify various points of view and lead to the best solution.
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Routinely encourage students to seek additional information, anytime they face a decision.
Provide authentic feedback about the process they use to arrive at the best solution, anytime they face a decision.
Benchmark 3: Analyze and evaluate evidence, arguments, claims, and beliefs to inform effective decisions.
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Ask students to connect their academic progression with future life goals.
Routinely encourage students to seek additional information and evaluate all options, anytime they face a decision.
Provide authentic feedback about the process they use to arrive at the best solution, anytime they face a decision.
Benchmark 4: Analyze how their present decision-making affects college and career choices.
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Provide planners for students to list their goals and set deadlines for accomplishing those goals and completing projects.
Ask students to write essays or respond to journal prompts about their college and career goals. Ask students to analyze how their current decision-making affects their progress toward achieving those goals.