Responsible Decision-Making
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Objective: Students will demonstrate open-mindedness and think flexibly.聽
Estimated Duration: 20 minutes
Description: Having an open mind or thinking flexibly is an important skill 石榴视频黄色版 need to manage their thoughts, feelings, and actions. Being flexible allows them to adapt to new or unexcepted situations. It can also help them solve problems, have a good relationship石榴视频黄色版痺ith others, and think about things in new ways.聽
Another important thing that flexibility helps 石榴视频黄色版 with is transitions from one activity to another. It can help them deal with new or different situations and changes in routines. All this combined proves that being flexible and having an open mind plays a key role in all types of learning.聽 聽聽
This activity will get 石榴视频黄色版 to start thinking about what might happen if things don石榴视频黄色版檛 go as planned. They are asked to write a Do and Don石榴视频黄色版檛 list to help plan for when change happens.聽 They can refer to their list when unexpected things happen.聽
Teachable Moments: To help 石榴视频黄色版 have an open-mind and think flexibly:
- Change your daily routine in the classroom. Make a small tweak here and there occasionally to show 石榴视频黄色版 that it is okay to do things differently sometimes.
- Read a joke book with石榴视频黄色版痽our石榴视频黄色版痗lass.石榴视频黄色版疭ometimes,石榴视频黄色版痳igid thinkers have石榴视频黄色版痑石榴视频黄色版痙ifficult石榴视频黄色版痶ime石榴视频黄色版痷nderstanding jokes石榴视频黄色版痮r making up their own jokes. They also have a hard time making up their own jokes. Joke books are a good way to talk about the different meanings of words and to think about changing the meaning of a word to make it funny.聽
- Share ways that you have been adaptable as a teacher or even outside of the classroom. Students will learn that having the ability to adapt is normal.聽
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Objective: Students will identify solutions for problems.
Estimated Duration: 20 minutes
Description: Helping 石榴视频黄色版 determine the size of a problem is an important skill. It helps them identify the severity of their problem which then allows them to choose an appropriate reaction.聽
When 石榴视频黄色版 have a common language to describe their problems, they can identify solutions. Problems are not created equal. Figuring out the size of the problem is the first step in being able to match their emotional reaction accordingly.聽
This activity breaks problems into three sizes: small (or penny), medium (or quarter), and large (or dollar).聽
Small problems are defined as those that can be easily solved on your own, despite feeling a little sad or frustrated. No one is in danger or breaking any rules. Examples of small problems include needing to sharpen a broken pencil or forgetting to bring something to a friend.聽
Medium problems require someone's help, often an adult, to solve. They often make us feel mad, confused, frustrated, or worried. Some examples are figuring out a math problem or forgetting lunch at home.聽
A big problem makes us feel really scared, hurt, worried, or upset. Big problems are usually solved by an adult. Examples include being bullied, getting hurt, or dealing with unfortunate events outside of our direct control.聽
Students will write an example of a penny, a quarter, and a dollar problem. Then, they will explain how they would solve each problem. It might be helpful to share examples石榴视频黄色版痮f each problem size石榴视频黄色版痺ith 石榴视频黄色版石榴视频黄色版痓efore they begin.
Teachable Moments: There are many ways you can help 石榴视频黄色版 make good decisions:
- Have 石榴视频黄色版 consider how long the problem will last.
- Have 石榴视频黄色版 determine how many people the problem affects.
- Have 石榴视频黄色版 determine whether people get hurt from the problem.
- Have 石榴视频黄色版 determine how easy the problem is to solve.
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Objective: Students will be able to understand the importance of making good choices.聽
Estimated Duration: 20 minutes
Description: Learning how to be a decision-maker is a lifelong skill, so it石榴视频黄色版檚 important that 石榴视频黄色版 understand how to make good decisions at an early age. Part of that is understanding that every choice they make has consequences.聽
Good choices have good consequences and keep 石榴视频黄色版 safe, healthy, and happy. The goal of a consequence is to teach a lesson, not to punish. Punishing a student is harmful to their sense of self, emotional development, and their relationship with adults.聽
Consequences should therefore encourage self-examination, acceptance of responsibility, and learning from mistakes. They should help 石榴视频黄色版 develop a confident inner voice that will allow them to make better decisions in the future.
This activity will help 石榴视频黄色版 understand good choices and the consequences they have. They will write about three good choices they will make and then draw a picture of the consequences those choices will have.
Teachable Moments: To help 石榴视频黄色版 make good choices:
- Play matching games. Have 石榴视频黄色版 match choices to consequences (e.g., you choose to eat a whole bag of jellybeans, you get a stomachache).
- Model and role play real-life scenarios with 石榴视频黄色版. Let them see how you make good choices for yourself based on the consequences.
- Create a choice board for center or play time. Let 石榴视频黄色版 decide where they want to go. Have them hang a name tag on the chart for where they choose to play or work.聽
- Provide 石榴视频黄色版 with choices for completing an assignment (e.g., draw a picture instead of writing about it, allow 石榴视频黄色版 to use technology, etc.)
- Change demands for making good choices into asks. Instead of saying, 石榴视频黄色版淪hare the dinosaurs!石榴视频黄色版, say 石榴视频黄色版淚 see you like playing with the dinosaurs. Which dinosaur would you like to use? The green dinosaur or the blue dinosaur?石榴视频黄色版
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Objective: Students will demonstrate how they can be responsible at home, at school, and in their community.
Estimated Duration: 20 minutes
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This activity will help 石榴视频黄色版 think about being responsible. They will write and draw ways to show responsibility to themselves, at home, at school, and in their community.聽
Teachable Moments: To help 石榴视频黄色版 be responsible:
- Have them make coupons for tasks they can do at school or at home to be responsible (e.g., return something you borrowed, complete homework on time, brush my teeth, help with the dishes, etc.).
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- Model responsibility and talk about it.
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- Build a classroom job system. Use pictures to help 石榴视频黄色版 understand the jobs that need to be done and how to do them.
- Encourage 石榴视频黄色版 to help others in need in their community by organizing different collections throughout the year (e.g., canned food for pantries, toothbrushes for shelters, toys for children石榴视频黄色版檚 hospitals, etc.)
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Estimated Duration: 25-30 minutes
- Cut out the Pocket Strip and the four If石榴视频黄色版hen Cards by cutting on the dark black lines.聽
- Glue the Pocket Strip onto the gray strip near the bottom of the page of the student book. Remember, do NOT make folds on Pocket Strips.聽 Allow glue to dry.
- Review what 石榴视频黄色版 know about being flexible, making good choices, being responsible, and solving problems by having them complete the If石榴视频黄色版hen boxes on the four large cards. Students store their If石榴视频黄色版hen Cards in the Pocket Strip.
- Cut along the one black line on the Good Choices and Good Consequences page to remove the title strip.聽 Fold the page in half along the dotted line to make a Folded Book. First fold so the dots show along the fold, then refold on the same line so the dots and the writing are inside the Folded Book.
- On the blank front of the Folded Book, 石榴视频黄色版 draw and color a picture of themselves making a good choice.聽聽
- Glue the back of the Folded Book in the middle of the picture frame in the student book. Student artwork will be framed when glued onto the page.
- Inside the Half-Book Foldable, 石榴视频黄色版 draw or write to record how good choices make them safer, healthier, and happier.
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