Curricula Samples
Building Decision Skills
Third Edition
The Building Decision Skills curriculum provides a hands-on, interactive classroom model for teaching ethics in educational settings. Newly revised and expanded, the curriculum guides teachers and students through a practical and conceptual process of making ethical decisions and defining shared values.
The program:
- Targets character education
- Awareness of others
- Discovery of shared values
- Practice in tough decision making
- Strengthens critical thinking
- Analysis of ethical dilemmas
- Extension and application to real life
- Conjecture about the future
- Builds leadership skills
- Collaboration
- Group problem solving
- Communication
- Independent thinking
- "Levels the playing field"
- Everybody is faced with ethical issues in their own lives. Children with limited background knowledge in specific class subjects can suddenly participate on an equal footing when the topic is personal ethics
Pricing - purchase request form
Bound in an 8-1/2" by 11" three-ring binder to facilitate photocopying of student materials. 246 pp., 44 illus., 11 handouts, 12 overheads, 10 worksheets.
Includes:
- Building Decision Skills curriculum
- How Good People Make Tough Choices by Rushworth M. Kidder
Listing of other school's using Building Decision Skills, download PDF
You will find a teacher's guide, ten lesson plans including readings, overheads, and handouts; numerous examples of ethical dilemmas appropriate to middle-school and high-school settings; assessment tools; and listings of additional resources for learning about the ethical decision making process and character education.
