MYP & DP ATL: Home

COLLABORATION

How can students collaborate?
Working effectively with others

• Use social media networks appropriately to build and develop relationships
• Practise empathy
• Delegate and share responsibility for decision-making
• Help others to succeed
• Take responsibility for one’s own actions
• Manage and resolve conflict and work collaboratively in teams
• Build consensus
• Make fair and equitable decisions
• Listen actively to other perspectives and ideas
• Negotiate effectively
• Encourage others to contribute
• Exercise leadership and take on a variety of roles within groups
• Give and receive meaningful feedback
• Advocate for one’s own rights and needs

ATL Skills from "MYP: From Principles to Practice (2014)"

ORGANIZATION SKILLS

How can students demonstrate organization skills?
Managing time and tasks effectively

• Plan short- and long-term assignments; meet deadlines
• Create plans to prepare for summative assessments (examinations and performances)
• Keep and use a weekly planner for assignments
• Set goals that are challenging and realistic
• Plan strategies and take action to achieve personal and academic goals
• Bring necessary equipment and supplies to class
• Keep an organized and logical system of information files/notebooks
• Use appropriate strategies for organizing complex information
• Understand and use sensory learning preferences (learning styles)
• Select and use technology effectively and productively

AFFECTIVE SKILLS

How can students manage their own state of mind?
Managing state of mind

Mindfulness

• Practise focus and concentration
• Practise strategies to develop mental focus
• Practise strategies to overcome distractions
• Practise being aware of body–mind connections

Perseverance

• Demonstrate persistence and perseverance
• Practise delaying gratification

Emotional Management

• Practise strategies to overcome impulsiveness and anger
• Practise strategies to prevent and eliminate bullying
• Practise strategies to reduce stress and anxiety

Self-Motivation

• Practise analysing and attributing causes for failure
• Practise managing self-talk
• Practise positive thinking

Resilience

• Practise “bouncing back” after adversity, mistakes and failures
• Practise “failing well”
• Practise dealing with disappointment and unmet expectations
• Practise dealing with change

ATL Skills from "MYP: From Principles to Practice (2014)"

INFORMATION LITERACY

How can students demonstrate information literacy?
Finding, interpreting, judging and creating information

• Collect, record and verify data
• Access information to be informed and inform others
• Make connections between various sources of information
• Understand the benefits and limitations of personal sensory learning preferences when accessing, processing and recalling information
• Use memory techniques to develop long-term memory
• Present information in a variety of formats and platforms
• Collect and analyse data to identify solutions and make informed decisions
• Process data and report results
• Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on their appropriateness to specific tasks
• Understand and use technology systems
• Use critical literacy skills to analyse and interpret media communications
• Understand and implement intellectual property rights
• Create references and citations, use footnotes/endnotes and construct a bibliography according to recognized conventions
• Identify primary and secondary sources

MEDIA LITERACY

How can students demonstrate media literacy?
Interacting with media to use and create ideas and information

• Locate, organize, analyse, evaluate, synthesize and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media (including digital social media and online networks)
• Demonstrate awareness of media interpretations of events and ideas (including digital social media)
• Make informed choices about personal viewing experiences
• Understand the impact of media representations and modes of presentation
• Seek a range of perspectives from multiple and varied sources
• Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats
• Compare, contrast and draw connections among (multi)media resources

ATL Skills from "MYP: From Principles to Practice (2014)"

CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS

How can students think critically?
Analysing and evaluating issues and ideas

• Practise observing carefully in order to recognize problems
• Gather and organize relevant information to formulate an argument
• Recognize unstated assumptions and bias
• Interpret data
• Evaluate evidence and arguments
• Recognize and evaluate propositions
• Draw reasonable conclusions and generalizations
• Test generalizations and conclusions
• Revise understanding based on new information and evidence
• Evaluate and manage risk
• Formulate factual, topical, conceptual and debatable questions
• Consider ideas from multiple perspectives
• Develop contrary or opposing arguments
• Analyse complex concepts and projects into their constituent parts and synthesize them to create new understanding
• Propose and evaluate a variety of solutions
• Identify obstacles and challenges
• Use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues
• Identify trends and forecast possibilities
• Troubleshoot systems and applications

CREATIVE THINKING SKILLS

How can students be creative?
Generating novel ideas and considering new perspectives

• Use brainstorming and visual diagrams to generate new ideas and inquiries
• Consider multiple alternatives, including those that might be unlikely or impossible
• Create novel solutions to authentic problems
• Make unexpected or unusual connections between objects and/or ideas
• Design improvements to existing machines, media and technologies
• Design new machines, media and technologies
• Make guesses, ask “what if” questions and generate testable hypotheses
• Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products or processes
• Create original works and ideas; use existing works and ideas in new ways
• Practise flexible thinking—develop multiple opposing, contradictory and complementary arguments
• Practise visible thinking strategies and techniques
• Generate metaphors and analogies

THINKING SKILLS: TRANSFER

How can students transfer skills and knowledge across disciplines and subject groups?
Using skills and knowledge in multiple contexts

• Use effective learning strategies in subject groups and disciplines
• Apply skills and knowledge in unfamiliar situations
• Inquire in different contexts to gain a different perspective
• Compare conceptual understanding across multiple subject groups and disciplines
• Make connections between subject groups and disciplines
• Combine knowledge, understanding and skills to create products or solutions
• Transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies
• Change the context of an inquiry to gain different perspectives

ATL Skills from "MYP: From Principles to Practice (2014)"