Approaches to Learning

Approaches to Learning (ATL)

ATL skills encompass general and discipline-specific learning skills.  These skill sets help develop students who are empowered as self-directed learners.  

The following are ATL categories that group skills into transferable life-long habits of learning:

 

• Communication

 

• Communication Skills

 

• Social

 

• Collaboration Skills

 

• Self-Management

 

• Organization Skills
• Affective Skills
• Reflective Skills

 

• Research

 

• Information Literacy Skills
• Media Literacy Skills

 

• Thinking

 

• Critical-thinking Skills
• Creative-thinking Skills
• Transfer Skills

 

~MYP Principles to Practice, 2017