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RESPONSIBLE DECISION-MAKING PRE-K-6th GRADES

Responsible Decision Making Competencies

Pre-K - 2^ndGrades

Indicators of Responsible Decision Making

3^rd- 6^thGrades

Indicators of Responsible Decision Making

1. Consider and use multiple factors in decision-making, including ethical and safety factors, personal and community responsibilities, and short-term and long-term goals.

● Makes choices to ensure the safety of others and oneself.

● Describes classroom norms and safety factors that guide behavior.

● Identifies and illustrates safe and unsafe situations.

● Describes the consequences of a person’s decision.

● Explains the importance of making ethical and safe decisions.

● Describes the influence of peers and others on decision making.

● Describe the benefits of rules and norms and their role in guiding academic and social decisions.

2. Develop, implement, and model effective decision-making skills to deal responsibly with academic and social situations.

● Implements stop, think, act, review strategies in problem solving.

● Demonstrates appropriate social and classroom behavior.

● Demonstrates constructive academic behaviors.

● Describes and applies the steps of the decision- making process.

● Effectively participates in group decision making.

● Makes decisions consistent with established rules and norms within the school setting.

SEL Academic Integrated Strategies for Responsible Decision Making

Pre-K 2nd Grades

3rd - 6th Grades

● Give students opportunities to practice making simple choices by using when/then or either/or.

● Routinely model good decision-making.

● Support students through the steps of making a decision anytime they face a choice or decision.

● Give students authentic feedback for making good decisions.

● Develop and enforce class rules and shared norms, discussing them routinely.

● Create, agree to, and help students understand logical consequences, discussing them frequently and whenever appropriate.

● Help students learn behaviors such as listening, paying attention, following directions, and ignoring distractions.

● In a class meeting, have students compose a list of classroom and playground rules, consequences, and ways to help others follow them.

● Allow students to choose where they would like to sit during quiet reading.

● Discuss with students how social norms affect their decisions (e.g. friends telling us what to do or not do).

● Talk with students about bullying and cyberbullying behaviors.

● Stress the importance of telling an adult when they observe or experience bullying.

● Create responsible digital citizens by teaching students about the effects of misuse of technology and cyber-bullying.

● Invite parents to attend workshops about cyberbullying and share the school's policy.

● Have student’s role-play the different roles in a bullying situation (i.e., target of bullying, student who bullies, bystander, and defender).

● Bring in a guest speaker who works to prevent or investigate incidents of cyber-bullying.

● Teach students to use “when-then” and “either-or” statements to determine the consequences of their actions in a variety of settings.

● Provide students with role-play scenarios on peer pressure that take place in and outside of school and discuss possible responses.

● Discuss the consequences of making both good and poor choices in a workplace setting.

● Have students create a chart of the pros and cons of either a personal decision or a classroom/school decision.

● Teach students a formula for making good decisions (e.g., identify the problem, consider the alternatives, make a choice, try it out, reevaluate).

Healthy Lifestyles SEL Teaching Activities for Responsible Decision Making

● Implement the STAR (Stop, Think, Act, and Review) process with students.

● Teach students a simple formula for making good decisions anytime they face a choice (e.g., stop, calm down, identify the choice to be made, consider the options, make a choice and do it, how did it go?).

● Implement the STAR (Stop, Think, Act, and Review) process with students.

Humanities SEL Teaching Activities for Responsible Decision Making

● Use puppets to help students identify safe and unsafe situations and what to do in those situations.

● As a class, identify community helpers who can help if you don’t feel safe.

● Talk with students about the difference between a stranger, an acquaintance, and a friend.

● Routinely walk students through the decision-making formula anytime there is a discipline issue—to think about the decision they faced, how their choice resulted in a problem, and how they might choose differently if they had it to do over again.

● Teach students vocabulary words such as honesty, responsibility, and perseverance and the relationship to social and academic behaviors.

● Ask students to apply the decision-making formula to problems characters face in books or stories.

● Walk through the steps of problem-solving in response to situations in stories.

● Examine problems or moral situations from literature and examine other alternatives and impacts.

● Read stories to students in which characters have made a choice or decision, and discuss the consequences, both positive and negative.

● Talk with students about the difference between a stranger, an acquaintance, and a friend.

● Ask students to apply the decision-making formula to problems characters face in books or stories.

● Walk through the steps of problem-solving in response to situations in stories.

● Examine problems or moral situations from literature and examine other alternatives and impacts.

● Use puppets to help students identify safe and unsafe situations and what to do in those situations.

● Teach students vocabulary words such as honesty, responsibility, and perseverance and the relationship to social and academic behaviors.

● Read stories to students in which characters have made a choice or decision, and discuss the consequences, both positive and negative.

SEL Direct Instruction Resources for Responsible Decision Making

Curriculum Resources

Pre-K

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

5th

6th

Harmony SEL

Unit 1:

Being My Best Self

1.4: Freeze Those Ziggles

1.4: Turning It Up and Turning It Down

1.4: Strong and Mild Emotions

1.4: Feeling the Calm

1.4: It's Time to Cool Off

1.4: Noticing and Regulating Emotions

1.4: Lost Your Cool? Get Calm

1.4: Keeping Control

Unit 2:

Valuing Each Other

Unit 3:

Communicating With Each Other

Unit 4:

Learning From Each Other

4.3: Solving Problems Together

4.5: Making Amends

4.3: Solving Problems

4.4: Compromising With Others

4.5: Making Amends and Forgiving

4.3: Solving Problems Fairly

4.4: Compromising to Solve Problems

4.5: Taking Responsibility and Making Amends

4.3: Finding a Solution

4.4: Ways to Compromise

4.5: Taking Responsibility for Mistakes

4.3: Talk It Out

4.4: Working Things Out

4.5: Correcting Mistakes by Making Amends

4.3: Talk It Out and Clear it Up

4.4: Let's STEP It Up

4.5: Making Mistakes and Making Amends

4.3: STEP It Up! To Resolve Conflict

4.4: Practice Makes Perfect

4.5: Making Amends When You Make a Mistake

4.3: Smooth Solutions for Conflict

4.4: Working Through Conflict

4.5: Make a Point of Making Amends

Utah Core Health Standards

Strand 1: Health Foundations and Protective Factors of Healthy Self

Standard K.HF.1

Standard K.HF.2

Standard K.HF.3

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Standard 1.HF.1

Standard 1.HF.2

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