One-day ATL skills design and implementation course:

 

Topic 1.  Designing ATL-rich Lessons:

• Children who thrived under Covid
• Purpose and rationale for teaching ATL skills
• ATL skills needed for successful remote self-managed learning
• Core-Generic ATL skill programme design and planning across all grade levels
• Creating ATL-rich lessons in normal subjects
• Explicit and implicit ATL teaching and learning exercises

Topic 2. Metacognition, ATL Reflection and Assessment

• Developing student awareness of their own thinking and learning
• Thinking styles, processes, strategies and problem solving
• Using reflective assessment to develop metacognitive performance
• Developing accurate self-assessment as a key ATL skill for academic improvement
• Assessing ATL skills

Topic 3. Courage, Resilience and Failing Well

• Covid cohort, strengths, weaknesses and mental health
• Most significant ATL skills for academic and career success
• Developing a growth mindset and the ability to fail well
• The role of attribution and causality in success, failure and motivation
• Developing teachers’ personal resilience through teaching resilience strategies to students.

 

 

Teaching with ATL Skills in Mind

Two-day ATL skills design and implementation course:

 

Day 1

 Topic 1.  Designing a Post-pandemic Core-Generic ATL Skills program:

• Children who thrived under Covid
• Purpose and rationale for teaching ATL skills
• ATL skills needed for successful remote self-managed learning
• Core-Generic ATL skill programme design and planning across all grade levels
• Creating ATL-rich lessons in normal subjects
• Explicit and implicit ATL teaching and learning exercises

Topic 2. Metacognition, ATL Reflection and Assessment

• Developing student awareness of their own thinking and learning
• Using reflective assessment to develop metacognitive performance
• Developing accurate self-assessment as a key ATL skill for academic improvement
• Assessing ATL skills
• Deep learning AI and the future of assessment

Topic 3. Developing Resilience through Teaching Resilience

• Covid cohort, strengths, weaknesses and mental health
• Social media ATL skills – memes, influences, identity and security
• Student motivation, understanding, memory and information processing
• Developing teachers’ personal resilience through teaching resilience strategies to students.
• Thematic approach to developing affective ATL skills across programmes

 Day 2

 Topic 4. Academic Success, ATL skills and Failing Well:

• Which ATL skills are most significant for academic and career success?
• Developing a growth mindset and the ability to fail well
• The role of attribution and causality in success, failure and motivation
• How can character-based ATL skills be implemented across all programmes?
• Courage, resilience and failing well

Topic 5. Programme and Subject Specific ATL Skills

• Top 10 Subject Specific ATL skills in each subject area
• Planning Subject Specific ATL skill development across grades
• Creating ATL-rich lessons in subject lessons
• Teaching strategies for Subject Specific ATL skills

 Topic 6. Teaching Thinking 

• Perception, bias, memes, mis-information and the search for truth
• Information verification strategies
• Critical thinking, creative thinking and effective decision making
• Inquiry learning, POGIL and digital pedagogy
• Incentivising the self-management of learning

[Contact Lance King for further information]