PP Strategy 2: Personalize Choices
Another way to help students learn about choice is to study the issue and help them personalize it. When and where do students make choices in their lives? How do they feel about them? What meaning does making decisions have for them?
Create tasks that help students explore their personal reactions to decision making. These can be written or oral.
Examples of questions you might ask your students:
- List five things that you were able to decide this week. Put them in order of their importance to you.
- Make a list of five things that other people decided for you that you would have liked to decide for yourself. Put them in order of their importance to you.
- What are some decisions you make today that you were not able to make when you were five? Pick one to tell about.
- Are there some things you wish you did not have to decide? List them. Pick one and write your reasons for not wanting to make such a decision.
- What decisions do you get to make at home? List five. What other decisions would you like to make at home? List five. Why do you think you should be allowed to make these decisions? Write out your reasons.
- Write a letter of thanks to someone who gave you an opportunity to make choices
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