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Approaches to Learning

The IB PYP identifies five Approaches to Learning Skills as essential for student success: thinking, social, communication, self-management, and research. Teachers select one or two Approaches to Learning on which to focus for each unit of inquiry. All Approaches to Learning must be taught every year.

Approaches to Learning

 

Approaches to Learning Skills:

Subskills:

Thinking Skills
  • Acquisition of knowledge
  • Comprehension
  • Application
  • Analysis
  • Synthesis
  • Evaluation
  • Dialectical thought
  • Metacognition

Social Skills
  • Accepting responsibility
  • Respecting others
  • Cooperating
  • Resolving conflict
  • Group decision making
  • Adopting a variety of group roles

Communication Skills
  • Listening
  • Speaking
  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Viewing
  • Presenting
  • Non-verbal communication

Self-management Skills
  • Gross motor skills
  • Fine motor skills
  • Spatial awareness
  • Organization
  • Time management
  • Safety
  • Healthy lifestyle
  • Codes of behavior
  • Informed choices

Research Skills
  • Formulating questions
  • Observing
  • Planning
  • Collecting data
  • Recording data
  • Organizing data
  • Interpreting data
  • Presenting research findings