Approaches to Learning (ATL)

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