Reflective Decision-Making

Know content for this band lives in LT 6.1 Band A.

I can learn from what I did.

I can retell a short experience orally or in a drawing-plus-sentence format, and state one thing I learned from it.

Know content for this band lives in LT 6.1 Band B.

Most choices have upsides and downsides, and thinking about both before deciding gives me a better chance of choosing well.

I can complete a simple before-after decision reflection: stating one helpful and one harmful possible outcome before making a choice, and writing one sentence afterwards about what happened.

Know content for this band lives in LT 6.1 Band C.

Good decisions consider more than one option and are grounded in what matters to me, not just what's easiest or most obvious.

I can complete a written three-option comparison for a decision I face, state my choice, and give a reason that references a named personal value.

Know content for this band lives in LT 6.1 Band D. LT 6.2 Band C provides evidence vocabulary.

Decisions rarely have a single right answer, and justifying a choice requires being honest about what I'm trading off and for whom.

I can write a structured decision analysis of a real or realistic scenario that names the trade-offs involved and considers how the decision affects at least two different stakeholders or affected parties.

Know content for this band lives in LT 6.1 Band E and LT 6.2 Band D.

The process that produces a decision matters as much as the decision itself — good reasoning under uncertainty is evaluable even before the outcome is known.

I can write a decision analysis that identifies at least one cognitive bias or assumption likely to be affecting my reasoning, describes an adjustment I made to my process to reduce its impact, and evaluates the quality of the reasoning independent of the outcome.

Know content for this band lives in LT 6.1 Band F and LT 6.2 Band F.

Mature decision-making is not certainty — it is the ability to act wisely under uncertainty while maintaining intellectual honesty about what I do not know and openness to changing my view.

I can construct a reasoned written position on a complex, contested, and high-stakes decision: weighing multiple types of evidence, acknowledging irreducible uncertainty, making the logic of my choice explicit, and naming what would cause me to revise.