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Problem Solving Wheel: Help Kids Solve Their Own Problems

Students who act out in aggressive behaviors often do so because they struggle with identifying solutions to their problems. A Problem-Solving Wheel can help teach your students to learn how to independently solve a problem.

A problem-solving wheel also known as the wheel of choice or solution wheel is a great way to give students a visual of choices to help them either calm down when they are upset or to help them solve a problem with a classmate.

It is best to use the problem-solving wheel when students are dealing with a “small” problem. “Small” problems include conflicts that cause “small” feelings of annoyance, embarrassment, boredom, etc. If the student has a BIG problem they should practice telling an adult. “BIG problems” are situations that are scary, dangerous, illegal, etc.

Examples of Small Problems

• A classmate broke your pencil
• Someone cut in front of them in line
• A classmate is using the color crayon they want to use
• A friend keeps kicking their chair

Conflict Resolution

Children don’t always know what to do when they are experiencing conflicts with others. When students are stressed and in the moment of a conflict they can often forget how to solve the problem A problem-solving choice wheel can help them learn different ways to solve their problems. I’ve created a few free printable problem-solving choice wheels for you to choose from. Simply download and start using in your classroom today!

Problem Solving Wheel Freebie

Comes in 4 different versions:

• Ready-Made: “What can I do?” choice wheel is ready to use right away. Simply download, print and start using this freebie!
• Blank with Pictures: Have your students add their own words to the pictures.
• Blank: Have your students draw their own pictures and write a short description.
• Editable Version: Using the free version of Adobe Acrobat Reader edit all the blue boxes with your own words.

When you create a consistent pattern of how to solve problems students will eventually pick up on that pattern and begin to implement the pattern independently.

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Involve children in finding the solution..

Involving children in the problem-solving process can help give them buy-in into using the system that they take part in creating. Use the blank version or the editable version and have your students create their own ideas for how to solve “small” problems on their own. Your students might even surprise you and come up with some creative solutions.

Teach Feeling Words

In addition, for some of our students teaching feeling words can help them have the vocabulary necessary to express how they are feeling during a problem. We can start by naming students’ feelings for them and after some practice hopefully, the students will begin to use feeling words to describe how they are feeling during a conflict. For example, “Sam the way you yelled, “no” and stomped your feet tell me that you are angry.” Talking to our students this way can help bring their attention to their feelings so they can eventually identify their own feelings.

Help your students resolve a social conflict on their own with this – PROBLEM-SOLVING WHEEL .

 Where to Begin

• Start by posting the PROBLEM-SOLVING WHEEL in a good spot in your classroom or office.
• Start slowly and use 1-2 solutions and build up to using all 6 solutions.
• Practice, practice, practice!

Helpful Tips

• Start slowly: practice using 1-2 choices at a time and slowly build up to using all six. Be clear about what each choice looks like in practice.
• Practice is critical: Even after introducing the Problem-Solving Wheel students will still depend on you to help them resolve their conflicts. Continue to modal and have your students practice.

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• Rosie Revere, Engineer

Aggressive behaviors are often exhibited when a student struggles with identifying solutions to their problems. A problem-solving wheel can be a great way to give students a visual of choices to help them calm down and to solve a problem with a classmate or friend.

Grab your freebie printable today and get started helping your students independently solving their own problems!

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Focusing on solutions is a primary theme of Positive Discipline, and kids are great at focusing on solutions when they are taught the skills and are allowed to practice them.

The wheel of choice provides a fun and exciting way to involve kids in learning and practicing problem-solving skills, especially when they are involved in creating it.

Make sure your child takes the primary lead in creating his or her wheel of choice. The less you do, the better. Your child can be creative and decide if he or she would like to draw pictures or symbols to represent solutions, or to find pictures on the Internet. Then let your child choose (within reason) where to hang his or her wheel of choice.

Older kids may not want to create a wheel, but could benefit from brainstorming ideas for focusing on solutions and writing them down on an easily accessible list. It is helpful when you have other options for finding solutions, such as family meetings. Then you can offer a choice: “What would help you the most right now—your wheel of choice or putting this problem on the family meeting agenda?”

Helping your child create a wheel of choice increases his or her sense of capability and self-regulation. From Mary’s story you will gain a sense of why it is best to have your kids make their own wheel of choice from scratch instead of using a template.

Success Story

The following Wheel of Choice was created by 3-year-old Jake with the help of his mom, Laura Beth. Jake chose the clip art he wanted to represent some choices. His Mom, shared the following success story.

Jake used his Wheel of Choice today. Jake and his sister (17 months old) were sitting on the sofa sharing a book. His sister, took the book and Jake immediately flipped his lid. He yelled at her, grabbed the book, made her cry. She grabbed it back and I slowly walked in. I asked Jake if he’d like to use his Wheel Of Choice to help—and he actually said YES! He chose to “share his toys.” He got his sister her own book that was more appropriate for her and she gladly gave him his book back. They sat there for a while and then traded!

by Mary Tamborski , co-author of Positive Discipline Parenting Tools

It was such fun creating a wheel of choice with my son Reid when he was 7 years old. We purchased a few supplies in advance: poster board, stickers, scented markers, scissors, and colored paper. None of these materials are required, but I knew it would make it more fun.

It turned out to be even more of an advantage than I thought because his 3-year-old brother, Parker, wanted to be involved too. He had fun making his own wheel of choice (even though he didn’t really under- stand it). This was a great distraction for Reid’s little brother, who felt like he was involved in the process.

I started by asking Reid, “What are some of the things you do or can do when you are having a challenge?”

I was really impressed with how easy it was for Reid to come up with so many solutions. He had already been using many of these skills, so he created his list very quickly.

• Walk away or go to a different room.
• Take deep breaths.
• Put it on the family meeting agenda.
• Use a different tone.
• Ask Mom or Dad for help.
• Count to ten to cool off.
• Hit the “reset button” and try again.

He had fun writing them all on his pie graph. The scented pens added to his enthusiasm. He wanted to “practice” writing them on a piece of scratch paper before he officially drew them on his poster board.

I loved how he handled it when he misspelled a word or when his circle wasn’t even. He just crossed out the word and rewrote it. I was tempted to give my two cents and step in to fix it for him, but I remembered how important it was for him to do it by himself. I could see the pride in his grin and his little happy dance movement in his chair. I was relieved when Reid patiently allowed his little brother to be involved by adding stickers to his finished project.

Reid was so proud when he held up his wheel of choice. Even Parker was proud. They were both posing for a photo, and Reid even wanted me to take a video as he described it.

About two hours later he had his first challenge: his older brother, Greyson, was saying, “Reid smells like a fart.” Then he started mimicking everything Reid said.

Reid came to me and said, “Greyson keeps bugging me.”

I said, “You’re having a challenging moment. Would it help you to go to your wheel of choice to choose something you could do?”

He went to his wheel of choice, looked at it, and did his own little process of elimination. He said, “I’ve already walked away and he keeps following me.

I’m asking you for help.”

I asked, “What else could you try?”

Reid started taking deep breaths. Then he said, “I’m going to try asking him in a calm voice to please stop, and lie on the bed while you read us a book.”

Before I could even fully process this magical moment, all three boys were lying next to me while we read a book.

One of the most valuable lessons I learned was that he had the tools and skills to solve his problems on his own. Knowing that he had his wheel of choice reminded me to not get involved in solving the problem. After all, getting me involved wasn’t one of his “solutions.” (Yes, asking me for help was one of his solutions, and I used my judgment to know he could find something that didn’t involve me. If he had been in physical danger I would have helped.)

Click Here to view the Wheel of Choice from a program created by Lynn Lott and Jane Nelsen (illustrations by Paula Gray).

Click Here to get a more complete description and to order your own Wheel of Choice: A Problem Solving Program . It includes 14 lessons to teach the skills for using the Wheel of Choice.

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The “Problem Solving Wheel” has many options the student can choose from such as, walk away and let it go, apologize, tell them to stop, ignore it, talk it out, and wait and cool off. Having this tool in the classroom helps minimize the fighting and arguing in the younger grade classes. It helps with giving different options that the students can choose from to handle their difficult situations themselves. For example if a student is constantly taking their classmates scissors or school supplies without asking, their behavior needs to be corrected. They can do this by going to the wheel and choosing the best option to help them make the situation better. In this case it would be to apologize to the other student who they were taking supplies from without permission.

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I am placed in a first-grade classroom with 21 students in a suburban neighborhood. I prepared this tool by finding a wheel of choice that fit my grade level and included age-appropriate choices. I printed three copies of the wheels, laminated them, and stapled them around the room at eye level for students. I introduced the wheel at carpet time with the students, explained each choice on the wheel, and gave examples of what each one would look like in use. Since the wheels have been posted, some students have been referencing the wheel when needed and I have noticed a decrease in escalated conflicts among students. Students understand how the wheel is used and that it is their responsibility to pick a choice that is most appropriate for the situation. An adjustment that could be made to make this tool more effective would be creating a wheel of choice from scratch in collaboration with the students in your class.

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Math Wheels for Note-taking?

Problem Solving Math Wheels

Problem solving in math, or tackling word problems in math can be challenging for students, whether they’re in early elementary, upper elementary, middle school, or even high school! 

Especially if they don’t have any type of strategies to help them know where to start.

I’m not necessarily a fan of using ‘tricks’ or a specific approach every time students approach a problem.

But, there are times when students will feel very ‘stuck’ as to where to start, especially if they have trouble understanding or breaking down the actual text of the problem. They may also have difficulty in middle school if they don’t have a strong problem solving foundation.

We often see students in middle school who can understand what to do mathematically when presented with a problem situation. But some of those same students kind of freeze when that problem is presented in several sentences…. especially if there’s some extra information in there.

So, I created two different math wheels to help students with:

• Deciphering word problems 
• Problem solving strategies

Problem Solving Math Wheel #1

The first problem solving math wheel includes eight ideas students can use when breaking down a word problem and then solving:

1) Carefully read the problem

2) Identify the question, to be sure about what is being asked

3) Reread. Once students know what the problem is asking, they can reread to find pertinent information.

4) Circle key numbers. By circling key numbers students are taking the time to identify numbers they’ll use in their calculations.

This is helpful:

• for identifying numbers that may be in word form
• for identifying numbers that are NOT needed for the problem. These would not be circled and could even be crossed out.

5) Locate and box important words

• These words don’t necessarily need to be ‘operation’ words, but rather any words that help students understand what is happening in the problem

6) Evaluate, or solve the problem

7) Interpret and label

• The mathematical answer may not be the answer to the question (like when interpreting the quotient results in the answer being rounded up or down)
• Adding the unit label to the answer

8) Take time to check

• Is the answer reasonable? Does it make sense as an answer to the question?

This wheel has a  word problem that you can work through  with students when discussing these ideas.

Problem Solving Math Wheel #2

The second problem solving math wheel includes some of the well-known problem solving strategies and can be used as a simple reference to remind students that these strategies exist.

These problem solving strategies include:

• Organized List
• Guess and Check
• Work Backwards
• Make a Table
• Draw a Diagram
• Write an Equation
• Look for a Pattern
• Use Logical Reasoning

This wheel would be great for a center or finished early activity, because it doesn’t require direct instruction.

• Students can color this problem solving math wheel and then add it to their binders/notebooks and use as a reference throughout the year.
• This wheel could also be used in conjunction with the  Problem Solving Doodle Notes , which can be used to teach each individual strategy, as explained in this problem solving strategies blog post .

I know your students will love this engaging way to talk about and reinforce math problem solving strategies.

The opportunity to color and add some of their own creative touches will help make the strategies more memorable. 

Keeping these finished notes in their math notebooks will give students a reference for the entire school year!

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CREATE Week: Using the Problem-Solving Wheel to Prioritize Solutions by Abby Woods

As a school leader for more than 15 years, having the ability to quickly problem solve while including my team has been a vital craft to develop. I’m Abby Woods , a longtime leader in schools working alongside teams to improve educational experiences for students. My current role, besides being a board member for CREATE , is as the Director of Internal Consulting for Charleston County School District .

The problem-solving wheel graphic has been an essential tool for my school teams to attack educational issues related to student achievement and program evaluation. Many times teams gather to admire the problem and often get derailed with discussing the issues rather than prioritizing the solution through a process of performance measures and documentation .

Lessons Learned:

• Ensure your team can stay focused on the issues at hand and encourage them to be specific with problem. For example, the literacy program is not working is vague; whereas gathering information and creating a ‘work flow’ of the literacy process will help identify the breakdown.
• Providing stakeholders with an outline or steps helps the team feel successful in problem solving. Additionally, the cogs of the wheel can be assigned, then brought back to share for further examination. Teacher teams feel especially empowered through this level of responsibility and problem-solving for their students.
• Guiding the team through this problem-solving wheel requires a systematic approach giving each member a role. Put differently, the ‘buy-in’ of the team will grow as the leader develops responsibility within the team.

Rad Resources:

• American Evaluation Association is a great resource for leaders to evaluate how your team is growing. https://www.eval.org/page/competencies
• The Flippen Group has a myriad of resources for growing, developing and stabilizing teams. These were practices that are most helpful when creating the appropriate culture for team growth and problem solving. https://flippengroup.com/capturing-kids-hearts/
• The Racial Equity Institute provided an incredible insight and tools for evaluation as leaders work in a variety of organizations.

The American Evaluation Association is celebrating Consortium for Research on Educational Assessment and Teaching (CREATE) week. The contributions all this week to aea365 come from members of CREATE. Do you have questions, concerns, kudos, or content to extend this aea365 contribution? Please add them in the comments section for this post on the aea365 webpage so that we may enrich our community of practice. Would you like to submit an aea365 Tip? Please send a note of interest to [email protected] . aea365 is sponsored by the American Evaluation Association and provides a Tip-a-Day by and for evaluators.

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I am a student in the PME program at Queens University, in Kingston Ontario and am currently taking a course in Program Inquiry and Evaluation. I connected to your article as soon as I saw the “problem solving” wheel. As an instructional lead at my school, I can also see how this wheel would come in very handy to evaluate programs. I have led many PLC’s and we have taken on the Collaborative Inquiry model and follow the work of Jennifer Donohoo. This wheel and this model I have mentioned, have many similarities. Every stage of this wheel and the collaborative inquiry model are similar in that the contain the stages of problem solving (reflection), inquiry (awareness, gather information), collaboration (analyze information, vision and planning) and design (implement plan). Both of these models or processes allow stakeholders the ability to collaborate and through their inquires come up with a central idea or overall problem they need to try and solve by designing and implementing plans to meet their students learning needs. I appreciate that although the collaborative model is very systematic, it is not linear, and teams may need to go back and forth on the cycle. I would imagine this problem-solving wheel would be the same and participants would have the ability to go back and forth depending on any challenges the evaluation may pose. When I have facilitated inquiry teams, we brainstorm ideas, frame our problem and decide upon a common goal but after analyzing data we realize that we may need to take a step or two back and that the problem runs a little deeper than we thought. (i.e.: set a school goal of improving students reading fluency when after analyzing reading records realized that accuracy was the overall underlying issue and thus had to change our goal and focus.) I appreciate the three points you made as I also agree that participants need a systematic approach, with every member serving a specific purpose, clearly defined goals, which everyone agrees upon and are working towards and a clearly defined process to keep everyone motivated and on track. I wonder about any challenges you may face when evaluating programs and working collaboratively with a team. I wonder how you have overcome these challenges. I also have found that if success is not found after a certain amount of time, participants may lose interest in the end goal. Do you have any advice for keeping members motivated to continue and complete the program evaluation using this problem-solving wheel? I appreciated the link provided to the “performance measures and documentation” and look forward to sharing this with my team at work as I think it will help guide our evaluation questions.

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BATH, UNITED KINGDOM - OCTOBER 29: In this photo illustration the logo of US online social media and ... [+] social networking site 'X' (formerly known as Twitter) is displayed centrally on a smartphone screen alongside that of Threads (L) and Instagram (R) on October 29, 2023 in Bath, England.

Mark Zuckerberg’s letter this week to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), where he expresses regret over censoring free speech under pressure from the administration, is the latest salvo in the never-ending saga of platform content moderation. The White House, in a characteristically quick rebuttal, remarked that “tech companies and other private actors should take into account the effects their actions have on the American people, while making independent choices about the information they present.” Which is the sort of vague guidance that lacks specificity and falls short of addressing the underlying problem.

The reality is that content moderation—beyond the clear-cut cases of hate speech, violence, abuse, illegal activity, or threats to child safety, self-harm, etc.— is extremely difficult to get right and is bound to be perpetually flawed. The challenge only intensifies when it comes to breaking news or politically and socially charged events, where the stakes are high, and the incentives for various factions to skew public perception are even higher. There’s no easy playbook here; it’s messy, contentious, and often feels like an impossible balancing act.

Any centralized platform is destined to make mistakes—there’s no avoiding it. The idea of making genuinely “independent choices” or outsourcing these decisions to an impeccably balanced oversight board is more fantasy than reality. Even with the best intentions, the need for quick decision-making under uncertainty guarantees errors on both ends: censoring content that shouldn’t be, while simultaneously allowing fake or harmful content to spread before the truth can catch up. It’s a classic case of damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 17: Jack Dorsey, Chief Executive Officer of Twitter, testifies remotely ... [+] during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "Breaking the News: Censorship, Suppression, and the 2020 Election" on November 17, 2020 in Washington, DC. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey are scheduled to testify remotely.(Photo By Bill Clark-Pool/Getty Images)

The pandemic offers a textbook example of how hindsight can make it easier to spot where mistakes were made—with today’s information, for instance, we can see that mandating vaccines for those who had already contracted the virus was likely unnecessary . However, it’s easy to overlook that, at the time, misinformation was spreading like wildfire across social media, and vaccines were a critical tool that saved millions of lives. A study published in The Lancet , one of medicine’s top journals, estimates that vaccines prevented as many as 14 million deaths worldwide. While there may be debate over the exact numbers, there remains a strong scientific consensus on the life-saving impact of vaccines, even in hindsight.

So, while the White House may have been acting with good intentions, it’s evident that the decision to censor free speech—including humor and satire—was wrong. But let’s be clear: the solution the White House reiterated this week is equally flawed. It merely shifts the burden from the government to a private company, effectively outsourcing the blame. Platforms shouldn’t be tasked with making these impossible choices. They are for-profit businesses, and while they should certainly take steps to curb content that is undeniably harmful, they should not be cast as the ultimate arbiters of our speech.

This is not a new insight. Internet platforms today wield too much power, and content moderation is a prime example of a responsibility they’d rather not hold, yet it permeates everything else they do. Even when there are sincere attempts to distribute control—like our efforts with the Libra Association—achieving truly balanced participation and representation is impossible within the confines of a traditional web platform. While the issue is most obvious in social media, it extends far beyond, impacting everything from merchants attempting to reach customers on Amazon to developers trying to distribute and innovate within Apple’s ecosystem.

What’s a better solution? For starters, grassroots efforts for verification and fact-checking—like X’s Community Notes—should be actively encouraged. This bottom-up approach is how the internet built Wikipedia, the most comprehensive and reliable encyclopedia available, and how Reddit users sift through news and controversial topics daily. Even better, fact-checking should be platform-agnostic. It’s a public good, and when someone goes through the effort to debunk a piece of misinformation, that correction should be as widely disseminated as possible.

ANKARA, TURKIYE - SEPTEMBER 19: In this photo illustration, 'X' (formerly known as Twitter) Premium ... [+] account of Elon Musk is displayed on a mobile phone screen in front of a computer screen displaying 'X' logo, in Ankara, Turkiye on September 19, 2023. (Photo by Harun Ozalp/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Second, we need to adopt an open protocol approach to social media. Not only should users be able to take their audiences with them across platforms—something the FTC could enforce to rapidly accelerate competition and innovation —but they should also have the freedom to choose the algorithms and filters that shape their feeds. Imagine an algorithm marketplace where consumers can opt for content curated by their social circle, all the way to minimal or no filtering—much like what X under Musk successfully dismantled from the old Twitter.

The White House’s position reflects a paternalistic approach to content distribution, one that a different administration could easily exploit to serve its own interests. True progress lies in empowering users to critically evaluate information themselves and providing them with the tools to customize their own experience. Only then can we move toward a more resilient and transparent system.

The technology to make this vision a reality already exists, and open protocols built on crypto rails have demonstrated it’s possible. What’s lacking is the commitment to modernize our current web infrastructure—moving away from closed, walled gardens with excessive control over all types of curation, toward a more open and modular digital infrastructure .

Regulators have a crucial role in enabling this transformation, and instead of relying on regulation by enforcement—as exemplified by today’s S.E.C. action against OpenSea—they should consider how to support entrepreneurs in building the next generation of the internet. With the rapid rise of AI-driven content creation, the stakes could not be higher.

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