Primary Years | Curriculum
Approaches to Learning Skills
The International Baccalaurate’s Approaches to Learning Skills (ATLs) are the skills students use to “learn how to learn.”
These skills support the development of learner agency by encouraging students to set effective goals, self-regulate their actions, reflect on and monitor their progress, and to develop a growth mindset. All teachers in the Lower School are responsible for the development of these skills.
- Social Skills: Interpersonal relationships, social and emotional intelligence
- Thinking Skills: Analyzing, evaluating, formulating decision, generating novel ideas, considering new perspectives, information transfer, reflection and metacognition, wondering and asking questions
- Research Skills: Formulating & Planning, Data Gathering & Recording, Synthesising & Interpreting, Evaluating & Communicating, Media Literacy, Ethical use of media/information
- Communication Skills: Listening, Interpreting, Speaking, Reading, Writing, ICT
- Self Management Skills: Organization, mindfulness, perseverance, emotional management, self motivation, resilience, goal setting
The ATLs are explicitly taught and embedded into the units of inquiry as well as across the curriculum. They are the tools that students apply to their personal, social and academic learning. These skills are developed throughout the entire school from Early Years to the IB Diploma Program.