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Lincoln, Wanda – Learning, 1992
Presents suggestions on how to incorporate elementary student decision making into classroom routine. The article recommends teachers be models, provide food for thought, focus on student strengths, introduce decision-making processes, and provide practice. Seven steps to making good decisions and activities to develop decision-making skills are…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Decision Making Skills, Elementary Education, Problem Solving
Krause, Edmund – Learning, 1994
Five suggestions help parents teach their children to make decisions: give children tasks and choices that encourage a feeling of competence; allow children to share their opinions; give children weekly allowances and let them decide how to spend it; have children plan specific activities; and involve children in family councils. (SM)
Descriptors: Decision Making Skills, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Individual Power
Rosser, Phyllis – Learning, 1979
A City Building Education System uses the process of city planning to teach basic reading, writing, and math skills to children from kindergarten through junior high school and to stimulate creative thinking and problem solving abilities. (JMF)
Descriptors: City Government, Communication Skills, Decision Making Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
