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Thinking skills workshop

 ATL's: Approaches to learning 

Approaches to learning ( ATL's ) are a set of skills and strategies that aim to help learners self regulated and become life long learners.

ATL skills

  • Thinking skills

  • Communication skills

  • Social skills 

  • Research skills

  • Self-Management skills 

These skills are further divided into Sub skills.







Workshops:

PYP-5 have workshops before exhibition that specially talks about techniques and skills. 

We also have interesting activities to understand the ATLs in a better way.



Thinking skills workshop ( conducted by Miss Zunaira Hafeez) 


  • Thinking skills are the mental processes that help you find out problems, make decisions and connections, solve problems and create ideas.

                             

                                                            Thinking skills 


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                                                Critical thinking   Creative thinking

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Divergent Thinking: 


Divergent thinking is the process of creating multiple unique and creative ideas or solutions to a problem or a question.


Convergent thinking:


Convergent thinking is a method of problem solving or answering a question using logics and facts.

 Process of thinking:

  • Research

  • Composing

  • Problem solving

  • Decision making

  • Oral discourse

  • Concept formation

  • Comprehending

  • Principle formation

6 words to start a critical question:


  • Who.....

  • what.....

  • Where....

  • When....

  • Why....

  • How....




Indicators of creative thinking:


  • Fluency 

  • flexibility

  • Originality

  • Elaboration


Executive functioning

  • Impulse control

  • Emotional control

  • Flexible thinking

  • Working memory

  • Self monitoring

  •  Planning and prioritizing


Picture from the workshop








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Please open this link and try to solve any of these puzzles as your activity. There are 9, 25 and 49 pieces jigsaw puzzles. After completing a puzzle I would like you to comment down below which puzzle you did.

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