My aim to join this workshop is to find the connection between ATL in MYP and Transdisciplinary skills in PYP which it's now called ATL too. I found that the MYP ATL is actually taken from PYP with different sub skills underneath. For me the term ATL is good choice to maintai consistency across the continuum. However, the sub skills desscribed underneath each ATL in MYP still need more improvement. I notice that Affective skills is great one for teenagers who become students in MYP. in MYP, teachers need to teach these skills explicitly outside their common curriculum which is more subject based. it's hard when teacher do not believe on this philosophy.
Below is my note from the workshop
The ultimate goals of the school: to create brilliant learners and life long learner
Life long learner key skills:
- Set learning goals
- Plan their study
- Ask food questions
- Generate motivation and perseverance
- Working to deadlines
- Process information effectively
- Reflecting on their achievement
- Make changes to learn process
Self regulation, collaboration, ways of thinking/working, literacy, living in the world.
The direct teaching of learning skills: is it common in MYP? It's done in PYP but need to be consistent.
There is also research on the effect of learning skills in the result by Lance King that need to be followed up.
Categories of learning skills (ATL) are metacognitive, cognitive, affective
Definition of each domain:
- Cognitive: mental processes
- Metacognitive knowledge: aware of thinking and learning preference, strategies,
- Metacognitive performance: learn new things
- Cognitive: organization, good questions, goal setting and review it, learning environment
- Affective: gain control over mood, motivation, attitudes _ emotional including: perseverance, focusing and concentration, self motivation, mindfulness, reducing anxiety, delaying, managing impulsiveness and anger, developing resilience. - who's responsibility teaching the skills? Is it taught interdisciplinary?
What skills need to start in MYP 7
Self management - organization - use appropriate strategis for organizing complex information
Self management: Affective skills: Self motivation:
Thinking: creative
Time management -
At the end of year 10
Information literacy
HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT SKILLS HAS BEEN TAUGHT?
explicit vs implicit teaching of skills
- explicit: outside the subject class
- implicit: within the curriculum
How can get everyone on board to apply ATL skills
- Map the alt skills
- Teach it explicitly and implicitly
- Plan it well
- Use student goal for targeting their ATL, reviewed through student portfolio
- What skill can be reinforced?
- Interdisciplinary units support ATL. 1 year at least once per student
- Assessment criteria specific to the units
- School programme and excull including outing, fieldtrip
- ATL increase level demand and sophisticated
Ideas:
- write name tag with the learning skills e.g Yan creative thinking,
- Ask others about the purpose of attending workshop, share and take 3 most important points.
- Make diagram about the ultimate goals of the school stakeholders. Present it to others, other circle the keywords.
- Play unblock me game: Think aloud: students think aloud about the process, teacher guide without giving solution. For metacognition
- Work in pairs: choose skills to work on - develop learning experience,
Not so much to learn from the workshop as the workshop itself run in monotone and the pace is too slow.