Teaching Decision-making Knowledge in Primary School

Abstract

Making decisions is a process within which we choose among different possibilities and is one of human activities that marks us most. Making decisions represents the essence of direction and leadership in everyday life. This can be noticed on all levels from an individual across business systems and the state to the global society. Despite this fact we cannot find very much written about the process of making decisions in our school curricula. Perhaps the problem is to offer elements appropriate from the content and pedagogical point of view. The knowledge technologies offer the concrete solutions and support to help making better decisions. Making complex decisions is a hard process. At Dušan Munih Primary School Most na Soči we decided to try with teaching of skills how to make decisions. First we made a model for teaching such skills at a primary school. Then we worked out a teaching plan and a suggestion for the programme of lessons and prepared the material to be used in the classroom. After we had checked the suitability of its introduction, we measured the efficiency of our work with a questionnaire.