Decision Making and Problem Solving

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Decision Making and Problem Solving

• Botvin Life Skills

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Standards

• PSB1.1 Use a decision-making and problem
  solving model
• PSB1.2 Understand consequences of decisions and
  choices
• PSB1.3 Identify alternative solutions to a
  problem

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Essential Questions

• What are ways to solve problems?
• What are the possible outcomes and/or
  consequences?

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What is a decision?

• A decision is the act of making up ones mind.

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What is an outcome?

• An outcome is what happens as a result of making
  a decision. Consequences are outcomes.

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What decisions have you made today so far?

• What to eat for breakfast
• What to wear to school
• What to eat for lunch
• To follow directions or not
• To complete your work or not

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• You made some of these decisions quickly, without
  having to think very long about them. Whether
  you realize it or not, you went through some
  steps to reach your decisions. Lets look at
  these basic steps.

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Decision Making Model
STOP Ask yourself what the decision or problem
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THINK Ask yourself what your options are. Also
think about the possible outcomes of each.
GO Do what is best for you.
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What is the problem?

• What are my choices?
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• What are the consequences?
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Decision Making

• We all make decisions each day, most of them
  small, but occasionally big ones. The
  Stop-Think-Go! procedure that we learned about
  today can be applied to both small as well as big
  problems.