Determining the Critical Attributes of 
Potentially Effective CHOICES

Below is a list of choices.  Some are effective and others are not as effective.  
Not so effective choices can increase the chances of not solving and perhaps escalating the misbehavior.  When you think you understand what constitutes an effective choice, try the testers on the back of this page.

Directions:  Phase I – Focus:
Read the following list of choices.  Numbers 1, 3, 4, 7, & 8 are examples of effective choices.  Numbers 2, 5, 6, 9, & 10 are not so effective.  Compare the effective choices and contrast them with the less than effective choices.  Determine what attributes the effective choices have that make them effective.  Jot down the characteristics of the more effective choices.

Directions:  Phase II – Presentation of the Data Set:

1.	Please work quietly or move to the collaborative table area. .

2.	Stop yelling across the library or you will not be allowed back in the library.

3.	Please turn down your ipod or put it back in your backpack.

4.	If you choose to continue to talk loudly, you are choosing to work collaboratively so you will have to move to another area or zone.

5.	Do your work quietly or you will have to leave the library. 

6.	You can’t highlight in a reference book.  I’ll have to speak to the teacher/professor for this course about you. 

7.	Please put the food in your backpack or move to another area on campus that allows food consumption. Thank you.

8.	You can work in this seminar room with a minimum of three people ro if your friends don’t arrive within the next 10 minutes, you have will to vacate the seminar rooms so other groups can use it. 

9.	You can choose to go to the cell phone zone or I will have to hold your phone until you leave the library. Thank you.

10. Please stop the roughhousing or I will have to call the office or campus security.

Based on the work of Barrie Bennett