1st Grade Instructional Guide

Making Responsible Decisions Learning to make responsible decisions is a critical skill for solving complex problems and working with others. It involves accurately defining decisions to be made, generating alternative solutions, anticipating the consequences of each, and evaluating and learning from one’s decisions.

Developmental Learning Targets Grades KDG - 2

Developmental Learning Targets Grades 3 - 5

Developmental Learning Targets Grades 6-8

Students will demonstrate knowledge of how social norms affect decision making and behavior.

Students will identify social norms and safety considerations that guide behavior.

Students will be able to analyze the reasons for school and societal rules.

Students will be able to analyze how decision making skills impact academic performance and interpersonal relationships. Students will be able to generate a variety of solutions and outcomes to a problem with consideration of the well being of oneself and others. Students will be able to work cooperatively and productively in a group and overcome setbacks and disagreements.

Students will identify and apply the steps of systematic decision making.

Students will identify a range of decisions that they make at school.

Students will be able to generate alternative solutions and evaluate the consequences of those solutions for a range of academic and social situations. Students will be able to work cooperatively and productively in a group to accomplish a common goal.

Students will make positive choices when interacting with peers and adults at school.

Students will be able to demonstrate listening skills, start and stop conversations, and take turns in conversations.