SESSION ON THE IB LEARNER PROFILE AND APPROACHES TO LEARNING (ATL)

July 22, 2021

Approaches to Learning (ATL) skills session for Year 1 parents was successfully conducted on 16 th July, 2022 by IB educators to help the audience discover and understand the explicit strategies being used by the educators to strengthen the Learner Profile attributes.

The IB Learner Profile traits promote the development of the whole child to become a lifelong learner and responsible citizen, while the ATLs are deliberate strategies, skills and attitudes that are woven throughout the IB continuum and aim to improve the quality of teaching and learning across the IB Diploma Programme. Overall, the session was enlightening and skills were clearly elaborated using real examples reflecting

Approaches to Learning through class tasks across disciplines. At the end of the session, parents were asked to give their suggestions for appropriate tasks that would enhance student engagement and understanding.