Life Skills Education Toolkit

8•PART THREE: LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION MODULES

Module Five: Making Decisions5. DecisionMaking

• Understand that each person has a

unique pattern of behavior that adaptsto different situations

• Learn that determining the risk in any

situation is the key to safe behavior

• Understand that children can choose

and are responsible for their behavior inany situation

• Help children think through and make

decisions carefully

• Understand that the decisions they take

can have many effects on themselvesas well as on others

• Know why making a decision to delay

sex is safe and learn strategies to do so

• Identify why problems occur and what

steps can be taken to solve them

• Learn to choose the most appropriate

situation by analyzing possibleconsequences

• Changing behavior is difficult but

possible

• Understand how children unknowingly

convince themselves not to change

• Understand that children are the only

ones who can take control of their livesand be responsible for them

One:

What

Influences OurDecisions? Two:

How Do We

Make DecisionsThat are Safe? Three:

Solving

problems Four:

We Can

Change Behavior

• Testing the Waters• Taking Risks• Choosing Behavior• Three Cs in

Decision-making

• Making Ripples:

Good and BadDecisions

• Delaying sex• Best Response• What Should I do?• Problems and

Solutions

• Excuses, Excuses• You are in the

Driver’s Seat

• Open Door, Closed

Door

Module

Objectives

Session

Activities

Life Skills Learned/OutcomesCritical thinking, selfawareness, creativethinking and decision-making Critical thinking, creativethinking, problem-solvingand decision-makingCritical thinking, creativethinking, problem-solvingand decision-making.Self awareness, criticalthinking and decision-making