K-5: Decisions and Goals
The process of developing plans specific to a determined outcome
Learner Goal
Understand how to make decisions and establish goals.
Indicators
- Describe how choices are made.
- Describe what can be learned from making mistakes.
- Identify and assess problems that interfere with attaining goals.
- Identify strategies used in solving problems.
- Identify alternatives in decision-making situations.
- Describe how personal beliefs and attitudes affect decision-making.
- Describe how decisions affect self and others.
- Identify, give examples of, and establish both short-term and long-term goals.
- Identify methods to evaluate decisions and goals.
Suggested Activities
- Infusion of activites into all curriculum areas
- Classroom group decisions
- Identification of decision-making process
- Commercial instructional resources
- Parent-and-child workshop on decision-making and responsibility*
* This and other starred activities facilitate parental involvement.
