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Academic Skills

Competency

What Does Academic Skills Mean?
An awareness of, and proficiency in interdisciplinary academic skills, including three of the following: Research, Reflection, Transfer, Organization, Collaboration and Inquiry.

What You Need To Do:

Reflect on your learning skills across classes in school, select relevant examples from different classes and synthesize them to show how you have developed these learning skills.

For students in the IB, these are your Approaches To Learning (ATLs).

Will My Reflection Be Approved?
Student provides evidence and demonstrates proficiency in three skills, with examples of each skill in at least two different subject areas.

Exemplars

Guiding Questions

Metacognition

Guiding Questions

Developing new understanding - Overall, how did this experience develop new understandings/change you as a global citizen?
 

  • E.g. How have these skills impacted your thinking inside and outside of the classroom?

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Pick 3 skills or attributes in 2 different subjects and for each skill use at least one specific example (ie. task, assignment, etc.)

  • What does proficiency in this skill mean?

  • What academic subject required you to develop this skill?

  • Where else did you apply it? Did it look different to apply it successfully 
    there?

  • What challenges have you faced in this academic subject, and how has this skill allowed you to overcome this challenge?

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