ATL skills in the PP

Stephen hears a CS teacher mention a certain fact about Python. Later that night, he adds it to his coding website and also shares it with his coding club!

• research

• self-management

• social

• communication

• thinking

Answer explanation

Stephen transferred information from one context (computer science class) to another (his PP)!

Fiona is trying to find the right steps to teach at her upcoming jazz dance class; however, when she goes to find tutorial videos on the dance moves, she finds three videos from famous YouTube dancers that all show different steps. She will need to decide which dance steps to teach.

Which ATL skill is Fiona using? 

• research

• self-management

• social

• communication

• thinking

Answer explanation

Fiona will use research skills because she is selecting different sources and will evaluate which one is best, or which one is best for what her project needs. 

She also needs to decide which steps are the best fit for her class, for her project.

Jerry has a question about the reviews he is writing, but he knows Mr. Haggar is super, super busy. He doesn't want to bother this poor teacher. So he write a carefully-worded e-mail politely asking when a good time to meet would be. 

What ATL skill is Jerry employing? 

• research

• self-management

• social

• communication

• thinking

Answer explanation

Jerry has to think about the right words and phrasing for the e-mail to get what he needs, so he is using communication skills. 

Tom has interviewed three professional photographers for his project, and he has 18 pages of notes that he took from the interviews. There is a lot of useful information in the notes, but there is so much that it is hard to organize. Tom decides to make a graphic organizer to get all the important information in order.

What ATL skill is Tom using? 

• research

• self-management

• social

• communication

• thinking

Answer explanation

Tom is organizing information, so he is managing the information he obtained in a way that makes sense to him. This is self-management.

Summer has finished the novel she was writing, but her supervisor has informed her that two of its chapters cannot be published because the content has been deemed "inappropriate" by a local government literature screening bureau. Summer rewrites the two chapters in a way that communicates her message in a cleverly-disguised and publicly-acceptable way.

What ATL skill is Summer demonstrating? 

• research

• self-management

• social

• communication

• thinking

Answer explanation

Summer had a problem to overcome, and she creatively thought of a way to work around it.

Good is making souvenir cards of the teachers for his PP. He needs to convince each of the teachers to cooperate with him as he prepares the cards.

Which ATL skill is he using?

• research

• self-management

• social

• communication

• thinking

Answer explanation

Good is using social skills here. The idea of cooperation is a social skill (as opposed to "communication," which he will have to use to get people to cooperate).

Mr. Ralf finished his longboard, but he needs to try it out to make sure it works. He gets several of the other teachers at the school to ride the longboard from the school to Laiguangying Station to test it. (it doesn't work: Ms. Effa ends up in the hospital with a broken leg, and Ms. Sandy comes to school with a black eye).

What ATL skill is Mr. Ralf using? 

• research

• self-management

• social

• communication

• thinking

Answer explanation

Mr. Ralf is getting others to help him with his project; they are collaborating. This is a social skill.

Mr. Haysom's project is to write a 10,000-page novel. He finds inspiration for his novel in plot points from Macbeth, Holes, and An Inspector Calls; he synthesizes different events from each of these stories into his (and he cites his sources!).

What ATL skill is Mr. Haysom using?

• research

• self-management

• social

• communication

• thinking

Answer explanation

Mr. Haysom has researched several different sources (the books he got ideas from) and gathered data for his project. It's research!

He has also transferred data (plot points) from sources to his product (his story). This is a thinking skill!

Mr. BK's project goal is to organize a softball team and win a softball championship. Every week he has to encourage explain to his team what stategies they need in order to win. He texts every player before each game to make sure they will come. And after each game, win or lose, Mr. BK sends each player a voice message of encouragement.

Which ATL skill did Mr. BK use?

• research

• self-management

• social

• communication

• thinking

Answer explanation

Mr. BK is using communication to motivate and equip his team to win the championship.

Mr. Haggar finished his PP product - a time machine - a week after the deadline, and his supervisor yelled at him and e-mailed his parents. Then, Mr. Haggar used his time machine to go back in time, meet all his action plan deadlines, and finish his project on time.

Which ATL skill did Mr. Haggar use?

• research

• self-management

• social

• communication

• thinking

Answer explanation

Mr. Haggar used a very clever way of managing his time in a way that helped him be more productive.