Global Contexts
What's in a name?
ATL skill categories
1, 2, 3
100
With this GC students will explore beliefs and values; personal, physical, mental, social and spiritual health; human relationships including families, friends, communities and cultures; and what it means to be human.
What is identities and relationships?
100
A big idea—a principle or conception that is enduring, the significance of which goes beyond aspects such as particular origins, subject matter or place in time.
What is a concept?
100
This ATL category encompasses both media literacy and information literacy.
What is research?
100
The number of assessment criteria in each subject?
What is four?
200
With this GC students explore the ways in which we discover and express ideas, feelings, nature, culture, beliefs and values.
What is personal and cultural expression?
200
Broad, organizing, powerful ideas that have relevance within and across subjects and disciplines, providing connections that can transfer across time and culture.
What are key concepts?
200
This ATL category includes organizational, affective and reflection skills.
What is self-management?
200
The maximum that can be earned for any assessment criteria.
What is eight?
300
With this GC students explore the natural world and its laws; the interaction between people and the natural world; the impact of environments on human activity; and how humans adapt environments to their needs.
What is scientific and technical innovation?
300
These ideas are grounded in specific subjects and disciplines, and are useful for exploring key concepts in greater detail.
What are related concepts?
300
This ATL category includes creative and critical thinking, as well as skills in transferring learning to other subjects and situations.
What is thinking?
300
The number of global contexts.
What is six?
400
With this GC students will explore the interconnectedness of human-made systems and communities; the relationship between local and global processes; how local experiences mediate the global.
What is globalization and sustainability?
400
This links the key concept, the related concepts and the global context into a meaningful statement that students can understand.
What is a statement of inquiry?
400
This ATL category has the same name as the corresponding MYP skill cluster contained within it.
What is communication?
400
The number of ATL categories.
What is five?
500
With this GC students will explore rights and responsibilities; the relationship between communities; and sharing finite resources with other people and with other living things.
What is fairness and development?
500
This type of question promotes discussion, explore significant ideas and issues from multiple perspectives, can be contested and may be deliberately provocative.
What is a debatable question?
500
This ATL skill category focuses on students' collaborative skills.
What is the social category?
500
The number of MYP ATL clusters.
What is ten?
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