The IB’s transdisciplinary skills, now called the Approaches to Learning or ATL skills are abilities which will make a student’s learning journey more smooth and fruitful.
Whether it be thinking skills, social skills, skills in self-management, communication or research, explicitly teaching them gives children the tools they need to be independent learners. Throughout a student’s time at school we would aim for them to be exposed to each of these in a variety of contexts.
In order for this to happen it is important for a school to map out the year level Units of Inquiry and the ATL skills being taught and assessed in each. Below is an example of mapping led by me.
Examples of my ATL Mapping
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