ATL Categories
Examples of ATL categories?
What is essential life skills such as communication, social, self-management, research, and thinking
What does IB stand for
What is International Baccalaureate
"What does the IB/MYP philosophy mean to you, and how does it shape your daily teaching?"
What is
(responses vary)
aims to help students develop their personal understanding, their emerging sense of self and responsibility in their community.
promotes international-mindfulness, develops inquiring minds, moves away from sole memorization
What are some examples of teaching social skills in class?
- Assigning meaningful group roles in group projects
- Teach students how to disagree resepctfully
- Emphasizing and explicitly teaching collaboration amongst classmates
What does ATLs stand for
What is Approaches to Learning
"How do you incorporate the IB Learner Profile traits into your classroom environment?"
What is
(along the lines of)
Giving concrete examples of how to encourage students to be risk-takers, reflective, and open-minded
How can teachers implement the ATL category for "Research"
Responses very!
- Information literacy (how to identify and evaluate reliable sources)
- Media Literacy (how to compare different sources for bias, purpose, and perspective)
- Media Citations (teach citations and responsible use of information aka give credit to sources)
What does PP stand for
What is Personal Project (independent, long-term project completed in the final year of MYP)
What are Key framework pillars of MYP
opportunities to connect students' studies with the real world
- Action and Service (Service as Action)
- Approaches to teaching (inquiry based, informed by assessment )
- ATLs
- Global contexts
- Key and related concepts(conceptual underestanding)
- Personal project
ATL Category Thinking:
What are some examples of what teachers can implement in their classrooms to promote students' critical and creative thinking skills?
responses vary
Learning opportunities to:
- analyze information and use evidence to support their reasoning
- connect learning to previous units and apply knowledge in a new context
- after given new information; students explain how their thinking changed and reflect on how new evidence of a topic changed their ideas
What does IU stand for
What is Interdisciplinary Unit (combining two or more subject groups)
Why would you rather work at an IB school than a school that uses standard cirriculum?
responses vary!
International-Mindedness
IB learner profile traits give language for scholars to help build their identities and the kind of global citizen they want to be.
Class Interdisciplinary Units demonstrate intersecctional concepts that reach not just across class subjects but rather extends across communities in their local area as well throughout the globe.
IB does not view subjects in isolation; it views them through a global lens. Students learn that they are part of a global community. They explore how local actions impact the world and vice versa.