We are all a result of our decisions. Decision making is an important life skill for students to develop and practice in a safe environment. Making tough decisions can be an anxiety-provoking exercise, and it's helpful to make the process more approachable for students. The following activities are designed to provide students with ways to visualize scenarios and help develop positive decision makers.
Making decisions can be difficult, and it's unavoidable in every day life. We tend to think there are only a few tough decisions in life, like "should I take this job or that job?" or "should I buy a house or rent?" While these are big decisions, what makes them difficult is the choices. When each choice is equal, it makes the decision difficult. However, there are ways to make decision less difficult by weighing out options, looking at long term outcomes, and reflecting on choices made. Practicing these techniques in the classroom is a great way to ease them in life.
Making decisions may come easier to adults than adolescents. The reason is because as adults, we have an understanding of our goals, values, and standards. We base our decision making on the value of the reward and the confidences we can accomplish it with. Students may not have a self concept or an idea of where they want to be going. This upcoming generation has so many options in life upon graduation they might not be able to choose just one. There are too many choices, and weighing them all out creates an overload. Through these activities, students will develop their ability to think about consequences, reduce stress during decision making, and learn how to make decisions using a idea model.
Essential Questions for Decision Making
What are the different types of decisions?
What is a decision making model?
What makes decision difficult?
Additional Decision Making Lesson Plan Ideas
Goal setting - Have students make a storyboard that depicts three positive goals. Description boxes should explain the decisions needed to be made to get there.
Bad Decision - Have students make a five cell storyboard following someone’s bad decision followed with a reflection.
Good lessons from bad decisions - Have students make a storyboard showing a bad decision with a description explaining the lesson learned.
Each version of Storyboard That has a different privacy and security model that is tailored for the expected usage.
Free Edition
All storyboards are public and can be viewed and copied by anyone. They will also appear in Google search results.
Personal Edition
The author can choose to leave the storyboard public or mark it as Unlisted. Unlisted storyboards can be shared via a link, but otherwise will remain hidden.
Educational Edition
All storyboards and images are private and secure. Teachers can view all of their students’ storyboards, but students can only view their own. No one else can view anything. Teachers may opt to lower the security if they want to allow sharing.
Business Edition
All storyboards are private and secure to the portal using enterprise-class file security hosted by Microsoft Azure. Within the portal, all users can view and copy all storyboards. In addition, any storyboard can be made “sharable”, where a private link to the storyboard can be shared externally.
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