ATL Grading
Approaches to Learning: ATL Skills
WHAT ARE ATL?
As an IB World school, our goal is to facilitate students’ discovery of how they learn best.
Approaches to Learning (ATL) skills enable all of us to become great communicators, work well with others, manage ourselves and our own learning, become responsible researchers, and realize the various ways we think. We identify the most important ALT’s skills needed for each unit and summative assessment, and work towards mastering those skills throughout the unit. Over time, ATL skills enable all students to become stronger, more self-regulated learners.
On our report cards you will notice the following information for each ATL:
N = Novice/beginning—students are introduced to the skill, and can watch others performing it (observation)
D = Learner/developing—students copy others who use the skill and use the skill with scaffolding and guidance (emulation)
P = Practitioner/using—students employ the skill confidently and effectively (demonstration)
E = Expert/sharing—students can show others how to use the skill and accurately assess how effectively the skill is used (self-regulation)
As an International Baccalaureate (IB) School we want our students to be inquisitive learners and have created assessments that evaluate their knowledge and proficiency of the concepts taught during the grading period. At the end of each grading period, student grades are reported as composite scores of four IB MYP Criteria, that vary slightly depending on the course. The four criteria (A, B, C, D) for each course are combined and used to generate a single letter grade on their report card. This grade represents a continuum of their learning based on IB MYP Descriptions of their overall work quality.
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