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Approaches to Learning and Teaching

  • Approaches to Learning and Teaching

Boost your knowledge and proficiency in ATL skills with our comprehensive guide. Dive into the selection process of ATL skills, explore the five key categories and their clusters, and access a plethora of valuable ATL resources. Our content also encompasses a variety of approaches to teaching, including Bloom's Taxonomy, concept-based curriculum, differentiation, and visible thinking strategies. Embark on this educational journey to amplify your Approaches to Teaching and Learning skills and transform your approach to Language & Literature teaching.

Choosing ATL Skills

Through approaches to learning skills, students develop skills that have relevance across the curriculum and help them “learn how to learn”. Approaches to learning skills can be learned and taught,...

Communication Skills

Read critically and for comprehension. Read a variety of sources for information and for pleasure

Research skills

Introducing Research Skills. Research skills are important because in our 21st century global environment gathering and analysing information to build knowledge and think critically is a skill...

Self-Management Skills

Introducing Self-Management Skills. Self-management skills include three clusters: organisation, affective and reflection. ATL organisation skills develop students skills in self-management of their time...

Social Skills

ATL Social Skills

Thinking Skills

Practice observing carefully in order to recognize problems. Gather and organize relevant information to formulate an argument. Recognize unstated assumptions and bias. Interpret data

ATL Resources

As you begin to include explicit ATL skills teaching and learning in your Language & Literature classroom, the following wonderful resources developed by our amazing educator colleagues will be of use...

Bloom's Taxonomy

Bloom's Taxonomy is an approach to pedagogy that aims to maximise students’ performance. Bloom's Taxonomy is a framework for classifying intellectual objectives and skills essential to learning. It...

Concept-Based Curriculum

Concept-Based curriculum is a three-dimensional curriculum design model that frames the factual and skill content of subject areas with disciplinary concepts and generalizations. Concept-Based curriculum...

Differentiation

Differentiation is tailoring your teaching to the different needs of your students to ensure all of them have equal access to learning. It can take the form of altering the content of units, the process...

Visible Thinking Routines

Visible Thinking Routines are a set of questions or a brief sequence of steps used to scaffold and support student thinking. The toolbox of Thinking Routines has been developed across a number of research...

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