Wise Choice Process
Name:
1. What is your current situation?
My family is traveling to Saudi
Arabia and I must go with
them. I have a test scheduled
when I am away. I will miss a
lot of classes and material.
3. What are your possible choices?
Choice 1:
Choice 2:
Ask my friends to speak to my
instructors and tell them I am
traveling.
4. Likely results of choice 1:
1. If my friend forgets to tell
my instructors I may get
0% on the test and get an
attendance warning letter.
2. I will not know if the
instructor accepts the
reason for traveling and I
may be marked absent.
Date:
2. How would you like it to be?
Go to Saudi Arabia without
worrying about missing the test
and school work.
Choice 3:
Choice 4:
Email my instructors for an
appointment and visit their office
before I leave for Saudi Arabia.
Drop the course before I leave
for Saudi Arabia.
Ask my father to telephone the
president of the college to excuse
me from classes before I travel.
Likely results of choice 2:
Likely results of choice 3:
Likely results of choice 4:
1. Instructor will know why I am
traveling. I can ask him to
mark me excused.
1. I will lose the credits and
have to take the course
again in a later semester.
2. I can discuss rescheduling the
test or transferring the value
of the test to the final exam.
1. The president will not
speak to my father because
there is no consent form
signed.
2. My GPA may be affected.
2. I feel relieved because I do
not have to deal with this
problem.
3. I can review work that will be
completed when I am
traveling.
5. Which choice will you commit to doing? Circle one of the above that you can commit to doing.
6. When and how will you know if you plan worked?
Adapted from On Course by Skip Downing, 2008