Palo
PALO MIDDLE SCHOOL SEL

IB ATL Skill Alignment

Category
Skills
Grade 8 Palo Curriculum
SELF-MANAGEMENT
  • How can students demonstrate organization skills?
  • How can students manage their own state of mind?How can students manage their own state of mind?
  • How can students be reflective?
Organization skills
  • Managing time and tasks effectively
Affective skills
  • Managing state of mind
Reflection skills
  • (Re)considering the process of learning; choosing and using ATL skills
G8/1.1 Intro to Palo: Noticing What You’re Experiencing
G8/1.2 Learning about You
G8/1.3 Noticing Your Triggers
G8/1.4 Mindfulness Matters
G8/2.1 What’s In My Control
G8/2.2 Impulse Control
G8/2.3 Grit: Sticking With It!
G8/2.4 Effective Learning
G8/3.1 Keeping your confidence: inner stories
G8/3.2 Thinking Errors
G8/3.3 Challenging Your Thoughts
G8/3.4 Optimistic Thinking
G8/6.1 New strengths
G8/6.2 Reputations
G8/6.3 Future Resume
G8/6.4 Highschool Identity
G8/7.1 Prep for HS
G8/7.2 Using Your Creativity
G8/7.3 Designing your path
G8/7.4 Growing independence
COMMUNICATION
  • How can students communicate through interaction?
  • How can students demonstrate communication through language?
Communication skills
  • Exchanging thoughts, messages, and information effectively through interaction
  • Reading, writing, and using language to gather and communicate information
G8/5.1 Empathy in Communication
G8/5.2 Sharing Your Needs & Wants
G8/5.3 Feedback & Criticism
G8/5.4 Your Digital Self
THINKING
  • How can students think critically?
  • How can students be creative?
  • How can students transfer skills and knowledge across disciplines and subject groups?
Critical-thinking skills
  • Analyzing and evaluating issues and ideas
Creative-thinking skills
  • Generating novel ideas and considering new perspectives
Transfer skills
  • Using skills and knowledge in multiple contexts
G8/2.3 Grit: Sticking With It!
G8/2.4 Effective Learning
G8/3.1 Keeping your confidence: inner stories
G8/3.2 Thinking Errors
G8/3.3 Challenging Your Thoughts
G8/3.4 Optimistic Thinking
G8/6.1 New strengths
G8/6.2 Reputations
G8/6.3 Future Resume
G8/6.4 Highschool Identity
G8/8.1 Fairness
G8/8.2 Explore your purpose & meaning
G8/8.3 Hopeful future outlook
G8/8.4 Measuring Your Progress
SOCIAL
  • How can students collaborate?
Collaboration skills
  • Working effectively with others
G8/4.1 More Than Friends
G8/4.2 Handling peer pressure
G8/4.3 Standing Strong
G8/4.4 Embracing Differences
G8/5.1 Empathy in Communication
G8/5.2 Sharing Your Needs & Wants
G8/5.3 Feedback & Criticism
G8/5.4 Your Digital Self
RESEARCH
  • How can students demonstrate information literacy?
  • How can students demonstrate media literacy?
Information literacy skills
  • Finding, interpreting, judging, and creating information
Media literacy skills
  • Interacting with media to use and create ideas and information
G8/5.3 Feedback & Criticism
PALO MIDDLE SCHOOL SEL
IB ATL Skill Alignment
Category
SELF-MANAGEMENT
  • How can students demonstrate organization skills?
  • How can students manage their own state of mind?How can students manage their own state of mind?
  • How can students be reflective?
Skills
Organization skills
  • Managing time and tasks effectively
Affective skills
  • Managing state of mind
Reflection skills
  • (Re)considering the process of learning; choosing and using ATL skills
Grade 8
G8/1.1 Intro to Palo: Noticing What You’re Experiencing
G8/1.2 Learning about You
G8/1.3 Noticing Your Triggers
G8/1.4 Mindfulness Matters
G8/2.1 What’s In My Control
G8/2.2 Impulse Control
G8/2.3 Grit: Sticking With It!
G8/2.4 Effective Learning
G8/3.1 Keeping your confidence: inner stories
G8/3.2 Thinking Errors
G8/3.3 Challenging Your Thoughts
G8/3.4 Optimistic Thinking
G8/6.1 New strengths
G8/6.2 Reputations
G8/6.3 Future Resume
G8/6.4 Highschool Identity
G8/7.1 Prep for HS
G8/7.2 Using Your Creativity
G8/7.3 Designing your path
G8/7.4 Growing independence
COMMUNICATION
  • How can students communicate through interaction?
  • How can students demonstrate communication through language?
Skills
Communication skills
  • Exchanging thoughts, messages, and information effectively through interaction
  • Reading, writing, and using language to gather and communicate information
Grade 8
G8/5.1 Empathy in Communication
G8/5.2 Sharing Your Needs & Wants
G8/5.3 Feedback & Criticism
G8/5.4 Your Digital Self
THINKING
  • How can students think critically?
  • How can students be creative?
  • How can students transfer skills and knowledge across disciplines and subject groups?
Skills
Critical-thinking skills
  • Analyzing and evaluating issues and ideas
Creative-thinking skills
  • Generating novel ideas and considering new perspectives
Transfer skills
  • Using skills and knowledge in multiple contexts
Grade 8
G8/2.3 Grit: Sticking With It!
G8/2.4 Effective Learning
G8/3.1 Keeping your confidence: inner stories
G8/3.2 Thinking Errors
G8/3.3 Challenging Your Thoughts
G8/3.4 Optimistic Thinking
G8/6.1 New strengths
G8/6.2 Reputations
G8/6.3 Future Resume
G8/6.4 Highschool Identity
G8/8.1 Fairness
G8/8.2 Explore your purpose & meaning
G8/8.3 Hopeful future outlook
G8/8.4 Measuring Your Progress
SOCIAL
  • How can students collaborate?
Skills
Collaboration skills
  • Working effectively with others
Grade 8
G8/4.1 More Than Friends
G8/4.2 Handling peer pressure
G8/4.3 Standing Strong
G8/4.4 Embracing Differences
G8/5.1 Empathy in Communication
G8/5.2 Sharing Your Needs & Wants
G8/5.3 Feedback & Criticism
G8/5.4 Your Digital Self
RESEARCH
  • How can students demonstrate information literacy?
  • How can students demonstrate media literacy?
Skills
Information literacy skills
  • Finding, interpreting, judging, and creating information
Media literacy skills
  • Interacting with media to use and create ideas and information
Grade 8
G8/5.3 Feedback & Criticism