Approaches to Learning

Approaches to Learning  is concerned with the intellectual discipline, attitudes, strategies, and skills that will result in critical, coherent, and independent thought. ATL helps students develop self-discipline and a capacity for problem solving that allows them to produce high-quality work.

Learning how to learn is concerned with the discovery and masteryof the basic learning skills critical for student success. The student is enveloped in opportunities to discover and master key skills for learning and life success. Success here is considered important for success in other areas of study.

1. Organizational skills
2. Positive attitudes towards work
3. Working effectively in groups
4. Strengthening oral and written communication skills
5. Becoming effective researchers (asking good questions, accessing information, judging its value)

Through approaches to learning, students are g. Central to this is "learning how to learn" and developing in individuals an awareness of how they learn best, of thought processes and of learning strategies.

Approaches to learning also include:

Recognizing and helping students develop the range of their capacities, positive attitudes and effective habits of mind is the shared responsibility of teachers, and is at the core of all curriculum development and delivery.

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