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Personal project

Applying the skills

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Applying approaches to learning (ATL) skills: �How will you achieve your goal?

In this stage of the project you will ...

Select and apply ATL skills to work towards your product goal

Gather evidence showing how you have used the ATL skills

Select and apply ATL skills to work towards your learning goal

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Approaches to learning

Through ATL in IB programmes, you develop skills that have relevance across the curriculum that help you “learn how to learn”.

You will use these skills during your personal project, document them, and finally reflect on them in the report.

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Applying the skills: �How will you achieve your goal?

Select and apply ATL skills to work towards your product goal

Gather evidence showing how you have used the ATL skills

Select and apply ATL skills to work towards your learning goal

In this stage of the project, you will ...

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Applying the skills: �How will you achieve your goal?

Select and apply ATL skills to work towards your learning goal

Gather evidence showing how you have used the ATL skills

Learning goal: I want to learn about the health aspects of fitness for teenagers, what constitutes a healthy fitness level, and how to attain and maintain it during adolescence.

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Selecting ATL Skills

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Self-management skills: Organization

Managing time and tasks effectively

ATL skill(s) clusters	How have you developed these skills? Give specific examples of how you have used them in your project (before/after).
Information literacy
Media literacy
Organization
Affective skills
Collaboration
Communication
Critical thinking
Creative thinking
Transfer

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Self-management skills: Reflection

Develop new skills, techniques and strategies for effective learning
Use new ATL skills and evaluate your effectiveness
Consider ATL skills development
Choose the ATLs to inform the report wisely.

ATL skill(s) clusters	How have you developed these skills? Give specific examples of how you have used them in your project (before/after).
Information literacy
Media literacy
Organization
Affective skills
Collaboration
Communication
...

Explain how the ATL skills were applied

Describe the link between the ATL skill and the learning goal/product
Give reasons why they were applied
Provide examples or evidence

Explain how they helped in achieving the learning goal and product

Give reasons why the ATL skills helped you to achieve your learning goal/product

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ATL skills

Record the ATL skills that match project tasks

ATL skill(s) clusters	How have you developed these skills? What steps did you take? How did you use these skills?	Evidence of this step
Information literacy
Media literacy
Organization
Affective skills
Collaboration
Communication
...

Survey teenagers on their lifestyle, health and fitness

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Plan what evidence to collect

Plan what evidence to record to inform the report wisely.

ATL skill(s) clusters	How have you developed these skills? What steps did you take? How did you use these skills?	Evidence of this step
Information literacy	Collect and verify data on fitness for teenagers Decide on useful sources to reach learning goal using research table	Bibliography research table
Media literacy	...
Organization	Make a to-do list Keep all project-related work, sources and data in a process journal	To-do list Process journal entries
Affective skills	...
Collaboration	...
Communication	Use appropriate forms of writing Receive meaningful feedback Use a variety of media to communicate	Survey questions ... … Answers received Invitations to survey

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Collecting evidence

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"When teaching and learning are visible there is a greater likelihood of you reaching higher levels of achievement" ��John Hattie

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Gathering evidence

The ATL skills will help you reach your product goal and your learning goal. Gathering evidence of how you used the ATL skills will also support your reflection at the end of the project.

Here are some tips:

Use any format (or formats) that work for you.

Reflect regularly about what ATL skills you have used recently.

Keep a record of your reflections and include supporting evidence and examples.

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Gathering evidence

Examples of supporting evidence could include:

a series of inquiry questions (research skills)

sample correspondence with the project supervisor (communication skills)

screenshots of daily reminders or alerts to complete personal project tasks (self-management skills)

reflections about resolving a conflict (social skills)

a summary of prior learning that is relevant to the project (thinking skills)

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Writing the report�

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In the report

At the end of the personal project, you will submit a report with a section about this phase of the project.

You will need to:	Check
explain how the ATL skill(s) was/were applied to help achieve your learning goal	√
explain how the ATL skill(s) was/were applied to help achieve your product	√
support your explanations with detailed examples and evidence.	√

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Definitions: Explain

You should explain how the ATL skill(s) was/were applied to help achieve your learning goal

Describe the link between the ATL skill and the learning goal

Give reasons why this helped you to achieve the learning goal

Provide examples/ evidence

You should explain how the ATL skill(s) was/were applied to help achieve your product.

Describe the link between the ATL skill and the product

Give reasons why this helped you achieve the product

Provide examples/ evidence

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What could the evidence look like?

ATL skill cluster	Possible evidence
Communication	Correspondence with supervisor, social media posts
Collaboration	Essential agreement for group work, feedback to (or from) peers
Organization	Action plans, calendar reminders, lists, timelines
Affective skills	Lessons learned from setbacks, routines to enhance focus
Reflection	Self-evaluations, status updates
Information literacy	Lines of inquiry, annotated bibliography
Media literacy	Annotated research, Venn diagrams to compare and contrast sources
Critical thinking	Pros/cons lists, data analysis
Creative thinking	Prototypes, concept sketches, visible thinking diagrams
Transfer	Lists of relevant prior learning, mind maps that connects ideas

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Applying the skills: �How will you achieve your goal?

Select and apply ATL skills to work towards your product goal

Gather evidence showing how you have used the ATL skills

Select and apply ATL skills to work towards your learning goal

In this stage of the project, you will ...

Bi

Bii

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Checklist for Criterion B

Objective	Checklist
i. The student should explain how the ATL skill(s) was/were applied to help achieve their learning goal.	I have named the ATL skill cluster and specific ATL skill that helped me achieve my learning goal. I explicitly explained how the ATL skills were applied and why they helped achieve the learning goal. I gave examples of how I applied the skill and provided evidence in the form of screenshots or images.
ii. The student should explain how the ATL skill(s) was/were applied to help achieve their product.	I have named the ATL skill cluster and specific ATL skill that helped me achieve my product goal, and I gave examples of how I applied the skill. I explicitly explained how the ATL skills were applied and why they helped achieve the product. I have included evidence (product evidence, mind maps, research tables, etc.)

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Questions?

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Acknowledgements

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