APPROACHES TO LEARNING SKILLS

The Approaches to Learning (ATL's) skills framework supports and empowers learning across and beyond the academic curriculum. Developing students’ ATL skills is about more than simply developing their cognitive skills. It is also about developing effective and metacognitive skills and about encouraging students to view learning as something that they “do for themselves in a proactive way, rather than as a covert event that happens to them in reaction to teaching” (Zimmerman 2000: 65) 

ATL are deliberate strategies, skills and attitudes that permeate the IB teaching and learning environment in the school and they are linked directly with the 21st century skills.