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Guidelines for Decision-Making

1. Think things through carefully before you make a decision.

2. Make sure to express your own ideas and don't just follow others.

3. Map out the strategies to use to come to a decision.

4. Decide if the decision will be permanent or temporary.

5. Think of three alternatives: the decision you think is best; a decision which agrees with your decision but is slightly different; a decision which is the opposite of what you think best.

6. Think of the positive and negative consequences for each of the three decisions.

7. Once you have made the final decision, think about how you came to make that decision.

The Decision: The student who works the best all week and earns the highest grades will get to choose what we do on Friday afternoons.

Alternative 1: The student who tries their hardest all week (even if they don't earn the highest grades) gets to choose what we do on Friday afternoons.

Alternative 2: Students should not get to choose what we do on Friday afternoons just because they get the highest grade or work the hardest.

Decision Map Problem: Should students who get the highest grades or work hard be rewarded by choosing what we do on Friday afternoons.

Alternative 1: Students who earn the highest grades should be allowed to choose what we do on Friday afternoons.

Consequences: a) Students would only try to earn good grades so they could choose what we do on Friday afternoon and not because they are interested in learning (Negative) (Perlstein A.01).

b) Students would try to earn good grades in class all the time because they like to learn (Positive).

Alternative 2: Students who try the hardest should be rewarded by choosing what we do on Friday afternoons.

Consequences: a) Students would try their hardest because they wanted to choose what we do on Friday afternoons (Negative) (Perlstein A01).

b) Students would try their hardest all the time because they wanted to learn (

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