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Research Report #16
Supercharge your Classroom Models:
Creating Decision Making Lesson Plans
No matter what kind of
educational career you are in, you know about the need to look for the best
methods to teach and motivate. In the past, teaching was seen as a “top-down”
activity, but yesterday’s lecture-based model has crumbled as new options are
proven in the classroom. Decision making lesson plans are one way to
build on the ways that educators have inspired and empowered students through
interactive teaching modules that stress decision making processes. It
also allows students to take decision making steps rather than relying on a
“passive learning” approach, which has out outgrown by many students as new
media and fast-paced lives bring us closer to a digital way of processing the
world around us.
How do educators form Decision Making lesson plans?
The first plank of this kind of
approach is in the format of lessons, in replacing a lecture with group
activities and “self-learning” tasks that leave open-ended goals where students
are encouraged to take decision making steps themselves and take
responsibility to report their work. Another aspect of getting these kinds of
lessons done is in your underlying methods, using decision making processes like the scientific method to put together a linear model which students can
follow to put their budding skills to use. A good combination of creative
topical material and proven methods will produce great results. And the right
activity formats will keep students engaged and working toward their
conclusions.
Specific Recommendations
on
Decision Making Lesson Plans
- Present a decision making lesson plan on the SM-14 model formula for the decision making process. You can show some of the many miscellaneous
formulas given in Research Report #4 and advantages of SM-14. The decision
making steps from 1 to 11 should be memorized so provide exercises to help
accomplish this.
- The 11 steps of the SM-14 formula should each be made into a decision
making lesson plan.
- The three supporting ingredients, which are an important explanatory
part of the decision making process, should also be made into decision
making lesson plans.
- After this you can start to let students select a decision problem and proceed
through the steps or stages of SM-14.
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