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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Approaches to Learning and Teaching
Interdisciplinary teaching and learning
Interdisciplinary teaching and learning intentionally integrates knowledge, concepts, and skills from multiple subject areas...
Approaches to Learning and Teaching
Concept-Based Curriculum
Concept-Based curriculum is a three-dimensional curriculum design model that frames the factual and skill content of subject...
Approaches to Learning and Teaching
Visible Thinking Routines
Visible Thinking Routines are a set of questions or a brief sequence of steps used to scaffold and support student thinking....
Approaches to Learning and Teaching
Approaches to Learning
Approaches to learning (ATL) are skills designed to enable students to 'learn how to learn.' All programmes and subjects...
Approaches to Learning and Teaching
Approaches to Teaching
Bloom's Taxonomy is an approach to pedagogy that aims to maximise students’ performance. Bloom's Taxonomy is a framework...
Approaches to Learning and Teaching
Bloom's Taxonomy
Bloom's Taxonomy is an approach to pedagogy that aims to maximise students’ performance. Bloom's Taxonomy is a framework...