Approaches to learning (ATL) is a concept in MYP that permeates through all the subjects. Its purpose is to teach the students how to learn, become life-long learners, and to become responsible participants in their local and global communities.
MYP transcends the theoretical method of teaching of traditional schools and brings the knowledge taught in the classrooms to the real world. ATL skills must be integrated in the curriculum and explicitly or implicitly taught.
They include five categories which are extended to ten clusters, as follows:
Communication
Social: Collaboration
Self Management: Organization, Affective, Reflection
Research: Information Literacy, Media Literacy
Thinking: Critical Thinking, Creativity and Innovation, Transfer