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Lance King –The Art of Learning
• Learning About Learning – for Year 6-9, Grade 5-8 students
- noticing and improving learning strategies and
techniques, developing personal learning strategies for
success at school
• Exam Confidence – for any students sitting exams
- practical study and self-motivation skills for high
achievement in all tests and exams
• Courage, Resilience and Failing Well for students of all ages
- thinking strategies for dealing with pressure and stress,
overcoming difficulties, developing resilience
Literature Review of ATL Skills
Literature Review of Approaches to Teaching
Teaching with ATL in Mind –ATL in the IB Diploma
Plus good links for all five ATL Skill Categories:
▪ Communication
▪ Social
▪ Self-Management
▪ Research
▪ Thinking
To enable young people to:
pass high stakes exams?
gain good qualifications?
get into a good university?
prepare well for 21st C careers?
learn how to make a positive
difference in the world?
develop into expert learners
To help them become:
▪ self-motivated
▪ self-managed
▪ independent
▪ successful, lifelong
learners
Students in high school today will have 10-14
different jobs by their late 30’s
65% of today’s grade school students will have
jobs that haven’t yet been invented (US Dept Labour)
15 – 24 year old unemployment internationally is
at record high levels and increasing (International
Labour Organisation 2012)
“The world economy no longer rewards people just for
what they know, the world economy rewards people for
what they can do with what they know”
Andreas Schleicher, PISA, OECD
1. Oral and written communication skills
2. Critical thinking and problem solving skills
3. Professionalism and work ethic
4. Collaboration across networks
5. Ability to work in diverse teams
6. Fluency with information technology
7. Leadership and project management skills
Knowledge of mathematics came 14th on the list just ahead
of science knowledge and foreign language comprehension
▪ Finland – Foresight 2030 – the skills of how to learn, problem solving skills,
internationality
▪ Japan – National Curriculum Review - skills of how we learn, how we use what
we know
▪ Korea – Future School 2030 – creativity, problem solving, communication skills
▪ The Netherlands – Scientific Council for Government Policy - the skills needed
to transform the Dutch economy from a ‘knowledge economy’ into a ‘learning
economy’
▪ Austria - Institute for Economic Research – general skills, academic skills, job-
specific skills & the skills of innovation
▪ Canada – Federal Government Policy Horizons – synthesizing and employing
knowledge efficiently, adaptive thinking, media & digital skills
CCSS –Common Core State Standards – adopted by 47 states
Critical Thinking: Analyze, Evaluate, Problem Solve
Creative Thinking: Generate, Associate, Hypothesize
Complex Thinking: Clarify, Interpret, Determine
Comprehensive Thinking: Understand, Infer, Compare
Collaborative Thinking: Explain, Develop, Decide
Communicative Thinking: Reason, Connect, Represent
Cognitive Transfer of Thinking: Synthesize, Generalize, Apply
Ways of Thinking
▪ Creativity and innovation
▪ Critical thinking, problem solving
▪ Learning to learn, metacognition
Ways of Working
▪ Communication
▪ Collaboration & teamwork
Tools for Working
▪ Information literacy
▪ ICT literacy
Living in the World
▪ Citizenship – local and global
▪ Life and career
▪ Personal & social responsibility
Collaborative Problem Solving- 2014
QCA - “A framework of personal, learning and thinking skills that are essential to success in learning, life and work”:
▪ Independent inquirers
▪ Creative thinkers
▪ Reflective learners
▪ Team workers
▪ Self-managers
▪ Effective participators
Key Competencies for Lifelong Learning:
▪ Mother tongue
▪ Foreign languages
▪ Maths, Science & Technology
▪ Digital
▪ Learning to Learn
▪ Social and civic
▪ Initiative and entrepreneurship
▪ Cultural awareness and expression
Competencies for learning and leading:
▪ Creativity and Innovation
▪ Critical Thinking
▪ Collaboration
▪ Communication
▪ Character
▪ Culture and Ethical Citizenship
▪ Computer and Digital Technologies
Larning to learnHealthy lifestyle
ResponsibilityPractice and innovation
Humanistic connotations
Scientific spirit
Person with
comprehensiveand all-round qualities
culturefoundation
Larning to learnHealthy lifestyle
ResponsibilityPractice and innovation
Humanistic connotations
Scientific spirit
Person with
comprehensiveand all-round qualities
culturefoundation
“Students who use appropriate strategies to
understand and remember what they read, perform at
least 73 points higher in the PISA assessment - that is,
one full proficiency level or nearly two full school
years ahead of students who use these strategies the
least”
Top countries - China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan,
South Korea, Finland and Japan
What makes Finnish Education so good?
5 SKILL CATEGORIES
(PYP + DP)
Communication
Social
Self Management
Research
Thinking
10 SKILL CLUSTERS
(MYP)
Communication
Collaboration
Organisation
Affective Skills
Reflection
Information Literacy
Media Literacy
Critical Thinking
Creative Thinking
Transfer
LEARNER PROFILE
(All IB levels)
Inquirers
Open Minded
Knowledgeable
Caring
Thinkers
Risk Takers
Communicators
Balanced
Principled
Reflective SE
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Access at: www.taolearn.com/atl_resources/article216.xlsx
What do my students need to know, comprehend, understand, make meaning of?
Learning outcomes
Objective strands
Concepts
Subject matter
Content
▪ What learning and thinking skills do my students need to develop?
▪ Communication
▪ Collaboration
▪ Organisation
▪ Reflection
▪ Information Literacy
▪ Media Literacy
▪ Critical Thinking
▪ Creative Thinking
▪ What attitudes, dispositions, Mindsets, character skills will help them to be successful at school and beyond?
▪ Perseverance
▪ Resilience
▪ Emotional Management
▪ Self Motivation
▪ Mindfulness
Knowledge Skills Attitudes
1) What do I need to teach?
▪ content, learning outcomes, concepts, ideas, subject matter, interdisciplinary themes
2) How will I teach that?
▪ resources, textbooks, subject guides
▪ inquiry questions, experiences, activities, practice exercises, research opportunities, real world examples, problems to solve
3) What learning and thinking skills are going to be exercised in the teaching and learning of this material?
▪ ATL (21st C thinking and learning) skills
• Content development, subject matter progression, concepts, ideas, syllabus.
• Per grade, per semester, per unit, aligned with summative assessments
• ATL skills development, critical step-up pointsaligned with content complexity and classroom tasks.
• From Grade 1 - 12
Lesson design to achieve subject goals and practise key ATL skills - one/lesson
Design Challenge for teachers
1) Cognitive skills – active information processing and retrieval
strategies eg: note-making, listening, time management,
questioning, researching
2) Affective skills – enabling the student to gain some control
over mood, motivation and attitude eg: self-motivation,
perseverance, resilience, emotional management
3) Metacognitive skills – thinking about thinking: noticing learning
and thinking strategies, trying new strategies, continuously
improving learning effectiveness