Student learning expectations for Grade 6

The goal of ATL is to enable students to apply a range of ATL skills in different learning situations.

ATL skill area Student learning expectation Key questions Approaches to Mandarin B

Organization

Time management (Stays on task with reminders, usually meets

deadlines)

Consistently comes to class with all materials

How can I stay focused in class?

How can I keep track of everything?

Collaboration

Work in groups with minimal teacher support

Delegate and take responsibility

Accept others and their ideas

Take on roles

Respecting others and their differences

How do I work with others?

Communication

With support, can use appropriate reading strategies to interpret

vocabulary

With support is able to effectively present information in an

appropriate format

What communication tools are available

to me?

What ways do I communicate best?

Information Literacy

With teacher support, can access a variety of sources. With

teacher support can evaluate the reliability of sources

With teacher support can evaluate the reliability of sources

Acknowledge sources

Where can I access information? How do

I know the info is realizable? Where did I

get my info?

Reflection

With teacher guidance students can exhibit self-awareness-

including asking for help or feedback, attempts to identify

potential problems

With teacher guidance students are able to self-evaluate using

rubrics, guiding questions or other routines that are provided

(learning journals, portfolios, written reflections, etc.)

How do reflections help us learn?

What reflection tools and resources can

help me?

Thinking

Able to:

generate ideas (mind maps, brainstorming, concept maps,

etc)

With teacher guidance and modeling able to:

plan (drafting, exploring, rehearsing, practicing, refining,

editing)

inquire (questioning, challenging, information and

arguments, developing questions, using the inquiry cycle)

With teacher guidance and modeling attempts to:

applying knowledge and concepts

identify problems

What tools can help me think and plan in

different ways?

What tools do I prefer to use to think and

plan?

Transfer

Make connections with teacher guidance and modeling (using

knowledge, understanding and skills across subjects or

solutions, applying skills and knowledge in familiar situations)

Guided inquiry in different contexts as part of interdisciplinary

learning, in order to gain different perspectives

What are the “big ideas” of each of the

different subjects?

Do the big ideas of the subjects overlab?

What knowledge, understanding and

skills can be used across subjects?