Tutor Time: Making good decisions

Ideal for use during 1 hour Tutor Time.

This series of individual worksheets has been designed to help teenagers learn about themselves and gain life skills to channel their motivations to get what they want.
It’s intended to get them thinking about what they’d like to do and start to plan how to get there. There are also lots of resources to inspire and encourage.
The activities in this booklet are designed to be worked on independently with consideration on how to use the skills in everyday life.
Overall, it is intended to inspire young people to reach their dreams and become the best they can be.

This worksheet is :

• Making good decisions and getting over mistakes

By the end of this worksheet students will :

• Understand the importance of making good decisions
• Understand why teenagers sometimes find it difficult to make decisions and behave impulsively, irrationally or in a reckless way which can have big consequences in their lives
• Brain development stages and impact on behaviour
• The decision making process broken down
• Activity to work through own decision making example
• Getting over mistakes and how to show compassion to themselves and others

Self Discovery Life Skills for Teenagers Series

Other resources in this series include:

• Self-awareness and finding and using your strengths
• Making good decisions and getting over mistakes
• Emotional maturity
• Health and wellbeing and changing habits
• Finding supporters and asking for help
• Fulfilling your dreams
• Life skill development and helpful resources