ATL Skills in the Personal Project

Through approaches to learning (ATL), you will demonstrate your skills to take responsibility for your own learning. These skills will be assessed across Criteria A, B, C, and D.

Approaches to learning skills are broken down into five broad areas:

  • Thinking skills - critical thinking, creativity and innovation, reflection and transfer
  • Social skills - collaboration
  • Communication skills - interaction and literacy
  • Self-management skills - organization and affective skills
  • Research skills - information and media literacy, critical literacy

The key questions you need to think about with respect to every skill area are:

  • What skills have I improved on across the course of the project?
  • How has this helped my learning?
  • What evidence do I have to demonstrate improvement in those skills?

Through the course of your Personal Project you will need to demonstrate all the skill areas listed - this will be done in your process journal.

Extracts from the Process Journal must be submitted with your Project Report and clearly reflect each of the five strands of the ATL. it is anticipated that the complete process journal will be more extensive. However, 10 individual entries are sufficient to represent your work.

An individual entry does not need to be extensive and includes any of the examples you might use to document the process, referred to in the subsection 'Process journal". You need to take responsibility for making the appropriate extracts available to your supervisor.