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Dr. William Glasser

Choice Theory

The Choice Theory:

Choice Theory teaches that we are always motivated by what we want at that moment.

It emphasizes the importance of building and maintaining positive relationships with others to create a shared vision.

Choice Theory Summary

Basic Needs

Basic Needs:

All behavior is purposeful, motivated by our incessant desire to satisfy the basic needs woven into our genes.

The Quality World:

The Quality World

Everything we place in our Quality World is need satisfying.

Reality & Perception

Reality & Perception

We behave based on what we perceive to be real, whether we are right or wrong.

The Comparing Place

The purpose of all behavior is to create a match between what we perceive and what we want.

Comparing Place

Total Behavior

When we change any one component of behavior, the other components change as well.

Total Behavior

The Basic Needs

To Love & Belong

To Love and Belong:

Includes the need for relationships, social connections, to give and receive affection and to feel part of a group.

To be Powerful:

To be powerful is to achieve, to be competent, to be skilled, to be recognized for our achievements and skill, to be listened to and have a sense of self worth.

To be Powerful

To be Free:

The need to be free is the need for independence, autonomy, to have choices and to be able to take control of the direction of one's life

To be Free

To have Fun:

To have Fun

The need for fun is the need to find pleasure, to play and to laugh.

To Survive:

Includes the need for food, shelter, and safety.

To Survive

The Quality World

Quality World

As we live our lives and interact with others, we each build this unique Quality World that includes the people, activities, values, and beliefs that are most important to us as individuals.

Choice Theory states that information passes through three distinct filters as we create our perception of reality:

Reality & Perception

The Sensory Filter

Information about the real world comes to us first through our sensory system: our eyes, ears, nose, mouth and skin.

The Knowledge Filter

Represents everything we know or have experienced.

The Knowledge Filter

The Value Filter

The Value Filter

When information passes through our knowledge filter, one of a few things can occur that helps us place value to the information:

  • We decide that the information is not meaningful to us and the perception stops there.

  • When you do not immediately recognize the information, but believe it may be meaningful to us so we have some incentive to gain more information.

Our brain continually compares two images:

1. Our perception of reality

2. Our Quality World picture of what we want at that moment

The Comparing Place

All behavior has four components:

1. acting

2. thinking

3. feeling

4. physiology

Total Behavior

Aspects of Total Behavior

When we change any one component of behavior, the other components change as well.

The two easiest components to control directly are acting and thinking. It is virtually impossible to change your feelings or physiology directly.

Examples:

Examples:

***Imagine you could feel less sad or depressed just because you wanted to.***

***Imagine a student who is agitated and frustrated and could just calm down because he wanted to.***

Choice Theory and Student Needs

IMPACTS on LEARNING

References Cited:

References Cited:

“Biography.” William Glasser Institute, wglasser.com/about-us/biography/.

“Choice Theory.” Funderstanding Education Curriculum and Learning Resources, 23 July 2011, www.funderstanding.com/educators/choice-theory/.

Education, Teachings in. “Glasser's Theory: Address Student Needs.” YouTube, YouTube, 14 Oct. 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jWGrPsC0HQ

Sullo, Bob. “Total Behavior: A Concept That Offers Hope.” Funderstanding Education Curriculum and Learning Resources, 18 May 2011, www.funderstanding.com/choice_theory/total-behavior-a-concept-that-offers-hope/.

“The Perceived World and the Perceptual System.” How Students Learn: Information Processing, lo.unisa.edu.au/mod/book/view.php?id=454028&chapterid=74018.

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