RESOURCES: approaches to learning

According to the authors of Making the Difference: Differentiation in International Schools, the “critical success predictor for students entering the IB program is not intelligence, but rather maturity of attitude and work habits" (Powell and Kusuma Powell, 2007).​​
The goal of developing ATL skills in IB students is to help them become self-regulated learners.
Self-regulated learners:
  1. Have learned how to set learning goals
  2. Ask good questions
  3. Self-interrogate as they learn
  4. Generate motivation and perseverance
  5. Try out different learning processes
  6. Self-monitor the effectiveness of their learning
  7. Reflect on achievement
  8. Make changes to their learning processes where necessary
For IB students, the 5 Approaches to Learning (ATL) skills are:
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