THEORETICAL FOUNDATION FOR TEACHING AT BBCS - PART 1: CHOICE THEORY

Choice Theory explains how we behave as an individual and the choices we make. Choice Theory is
practised through the skills of what is called Reality Therapy. The practise of using Choice Theory in a
group such as a classroom or with a staff is called Lead Management.
William Glasser developed Choice Theory. CT explains:
doing we believe we are in control of our lives.

o Love/ Belonging
o Freedom/Choice
o Fun/Learning
o Power/Achievement
o Survival/Safety
Power/Achievement need pushes us apart from the people we want to be close to when our
behaviour is aimed at trying to control them.

ore pictures in our heads (quality worlds) that

have been very need satisfying for us.
perceive we are getting in the Real World.
our sensory system (What we see, hear, touch, taste and smell).
more effective if we focus on the doing and thinking parts of Total Behaviour.
te their lives through the choices they make.
could always be better or worse choices.

oices has to be taught it is not just a given.

Choice Theory is supported by the skills related to its counselling model, Reality Therapy. Reality
Therapy:
on the belief that we all choose what we do with our lives and that we are responsible for
these choices.

time, do not deny others the right to satisfy their needs.

-coercive and seeks to challenge the individual to become self-aware and self-assessing.
doing in order to get what they want.
at the choices we make to behave are our best attempt at the time to control the
world around us.
behaviours.