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Lance King –The Art of Learning

• Learning About Learning – for Year 6-9, Grade 5-8 students

- noticing and improving learning strategies and

techniques, developing personal learning strategies for

success at school

• Exam Confidence – for any students sitting exams

- practical study and self-motivation skills for high

achievement in all tests and exams

• Courage, Resilience and Failing Well for students of all ages

- thinking strategies for dealing with pressure and stress,

overcoming difficulties, developing resilience

Literature Review of ATL Skills

Literature Review of Approaches to Teaching

Teaching with ATL in Mind –ATL in the IB Diploma

Plus good links for all five ATL Skill Categories:

▪ Communication

▪ Social

▪ Self-Management

▪ Research

▪ Thinking

To enable young people to:

pass high stakes exams?

gain good qualifications?

get into a good university?

prepare well for 21st C careers?

learn how to make a positive

difference in the world?

develop into expert learners

To help them become:

▪ self-motivated

▪ self-managed

▪ independent

▪ successful, lifelong

learners

Students in high school today will have 10-14

different jobs by their late 30’s

65% of today’s grade school students will have

jobs that haven’t yet been invented (US Dept Labour)

15 – 24 year old unemployment internationally is

at record high levels and increasing (International

Labour Organisation 2012)

“The world economy no longer rewards people just for

what they know, the world economy rewards people for

what they can do with what they know”

Andreas Schleicher, PISA, OECD

1. Oral and written communication skills

2. Critical thinking and problem solving skills

3. Professionalism and work ethic

4. Collaboration across networks

5. Ability to work in diverse teams

6. Fluency with information technology

7. Leadership and project management skills

Knowledge of mathematics came 14th on the list just ahead

of science knowledge and foreign language comprehension

▪ Finland – Foresight 2030 – the skills of how to learn, problem solving skills,

internationality

▪ Japan – National Curriculum Review - skills of how we learn, how we use what

we know

▪ Korea – Future School 2030 – creativity, problem solving, communication skills

▪ The Netherlands – Scientific Council for Government Policy - the skills needed

to transform the Dutch economy from a ‘knowledge economy’ into a ‘learning

economy’

▪ Austria - Institute for Economic Research – general skills, academic skills, job-

specific skills & the skills of innovation

▪ Canada – Federal Government Policy Horizons – synthesizing and employing

knowledge efficiently, adaptive thinking, media & digital skills

CCSS –Common Core State Standards – adopted by 47 states

Critical Thinking: Analyze, Evaluate, Problem Solve

Creative Thinking: Generate, Associate, Hypothesize

Complex Thinking: Clarify, Interpret, Determine

Comprehensive Thinking: Understand, Infer, Compare

Collaborative Thinking: Explain, Develop, Decide

Communicative Thinking: Reason, Connect, Represent

Cognitive Transfer of Thinking: Synthesize, Generalize, Apply

Ways of Thinking

▪ Creativity and innovation

▪ Critical thinking, problem solving

▪ Learning to learn, metacognition

Ways of Working

▪ Communication

▪ Collaboration & teamwork

Tools for Working

▪ Information literacy

▪ ICT literacy

Living in the World

▪ Citizenship – local and global

▪ Life and career

▪ Personal & social responsibility

Collaborative Problem Solving- 2014

QCA - “A framework of personal, learning and thinking skills that are essential to success in learning, life and work”:

▪ Independent inquirers

▪ Creative thinkers

▪ Reflective learners

▪ Team workers

▪ Self-managers

▪ Effective participators

Key Competencies for Lifelong Learning:

▪ Mother tongue

▪ Foreign languages

▪ Maths, Science & Technology

▪ Digital

▪ Learning to Learn

▪ Social and civic

▪ Initiative and entrepreneurship

▪ Cultural awareness and expression

Competencies for learning and leading:

▪ Creativity and Innovation

▪ Critical Thinking

▪ Collaboration

▪ Communication

▪ Character

▪ Culture and Ethical Citizenship

▪ Computer and Digital Technologies

Larning to learnHealthy lifestyle

ResponsibilityPractice and innovation

Humanistic connotations

Scientific spirit

Person with

comprehensiveand all-round qualities

culturefoundation

Larning to learnHealthy lifestyle

ResponsibilityPractice and innovation

Humanistic connotations

Scientific spirit

Person with

comprehensiveand all-round qualities

culturefoundation

“Students who use appropriate strategies to

understand and remember what they read, perform at

least 73 points higher in the PISA assessment - that is,

one full proficiency level or nearly two full school

years ahead of students who use these strategies the

least”

Top countries - China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan,

South Korea, Finland and Japan

What makes Finnish Education so good?

5 SKILL CATEGORIES

(PYP + DP)

Communication

Social

Self Management

Research

Thinking

10 SKILL CLUSTERS

(MYP)

Communication

Collaboration

Organisation

Affective Skills

Reflection

Information Literacy

Media Literacy

Critical Thinking

Creative Thinking

Transfer

LEARNER PROFILE

(All IB levels)

Inquirers

Open Minded

Knowledgeable

Caring

Thinkers

Risk Takers

Communicators

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What do my students need to know, comprehend, understand, make meaning of?

Learning outcomes

Objective strands

Concepts

Subject matter

Content

▪ What learning and thinking skills do my students need to develop?

▪ Communication

▪ Collaboration

▪ Organisation

▪ Reflection

▪ Information Literacy

▪ Media Literacy

▪ Critical Thinking

▪ Creative Thinking

▪ What attitudes, dispositions, Mindsets, character skills will help them to be successful at school and beyond?

▪ Perseverance

▪ Resilience

▪ Emotional Management

▪ Self Motivation

▪ Mindfulness

Knowledge Skills Attitudes

1) What do I need to teach?

▪ content, learning outcomes, concepts, ideas, subject matter, interdisciplinary themes

2) How will I teach that?

▪ resources, textbooks, subject guides

▪ inquiry questions, experiences, activities, practice exercises, research opportunities, real world examples, problems to solve

3) What learning and thinking skills are going to be exercised in the teaching and learning of this material?

▪ ATL (21st C thinking and learning) skills

• Content development, subject matter progression, concepts, ideas, syllabus.

• Per grade, per semester, per unit, aligned with summative assessments

• ATL skills development, critical step-up pointsaligned with content complexity and classroom tasks.

• From Grade 1 - 12

Lesson design to achieve subject goals and practise key ATL skills - one/lesson

Design Challenge for teachers

1) Cognitive skills – active information processing and retrieval

strategies eg: note-making, listening, time management,

questioning, researching

2) Affective skills – enabling the student to gain some control

over mood, motivation and attitude eg: self-motivation,

perseverance, resilience, emotional management

3) Metacognitive skills – thinking about thinking: noticing learning

and thinking strategies, trying new strategies, continuously

improving learning effectiveness