Almost half of all states have some form of student involvement in their decision-making, while there are few opportunities for students to be directly involved in federal education decision-making.Maybe it is only ironic that students recognize that situation immediately and consequently offer resistance to Meaningful Student Involvement.
Thanks again.Rather than belaboring the necessity of engaging students in education decision-making, the following vignettes start with exemplary models, and are followed by research summaries from across the United States. Specifically, students learn about the decision-making process and then apply that knowledge to scenarios. There are multiple worksheets available for you to download under each concept.In this section, worksheets are organized by grade. For example, having students on an adult task force and having a student action forum where students identify important issues the school should address. They examine common practices in decision-making, and analyze the impacts of those practices. Activity: Hydropoly: A Decision-Making Game. You may click specific subject within a grade to view all the concepts available. While these activities do already exist in many schools, the teachable moments implicit in these activities are generally lost to the insignificance of the decisions that are to be made. Similarly, giving menial decision-making opportunities to students is not enough to teach them to make good decisions.There are a number of local schools where student involvement in decision-making is becoming the norm.
However, there these types of choices provide little opportunity for students to learn about the real effects of decision-making on other people. Yet many schools actively promote this approach in their student governments, allowing students to choose the themes for school dances year or the colors on this year’s yearbook cover, but not giving them any say in decisions that have more serious implications. School curriculum, policy, and climate are more meaningful leadership areas for students. You may click specific concept within subject category to view all the worksheets related to the concept. They’ll learn how it’s done and have more practice going through the decision making process. To cap the process, students explore some of the most frequently identified skills needed to successfully participate in decision-making in schools.In some cases, both approaches are incorporated. Thank you so much.Pushing paper across tables and going through the motions of decision making without practical applications is no one’s idea of a good time, or good learning. Worksheet created to use with You Decide episode of Brain Games (Season 2, Episode 8) about decision-making.The worksheet has questions for the students to complete while watching the episode, and participating in the interactive games in the episode.