Approaches to teaching and learning in the diploma programme
ATL are deliberate strategies, skills and attitudes that permeate the IB teaching and learning environment.
ATL supports the IB belief that a large influence on a student’s education is not only what you learn but also how you learn.
In the IB concept of ATL, there are five approaches to learning and six approaches to teaching.
Approaches to learning consist of interrelated skill categories, which also have close links to the IB Learner profile. The aim is to help students to take responsibility for their learning by identifying their best learning processes and developing their learning strategies with regard to
- Thinking skills
- Communication skills
- Social skills
- Self-management skills
- Research skills
Approaches to teaching are the six pedagogical principles behind all IB programmes.
Teaching in the Diploma programme aims to be
- based on inquiry
- focused on conceptual understanding
- developed in local and global contexts
- focused on effective teamwork and collaboration
- differentiated to meet the needs of all learners
- informed by assessment (formative and summative)
Ressun lukio IB World School has a library that supports the IB Diploma Programme. The library operates in both premises, Kalevankatu and Ruoholahdenkatu.
All our science books are in the Ruoholahdenkatu library and the fiction in the Kalevankatu library.
You can find the Kalevankatu library in the basement, next to student council room (room 017), and the Ruoholahdenkatu library on the sixth floor.
Opening hours
Both libraries are open daily according to the school’s opening hours.
Tha library assistant is available as follows: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at Kalevankatu and Tuesday at Ruoholahdenkatu from 9 am. till 4 pm. Exceptions to this schedule will be posted at the library doors.
The library assistant is there to help you with all library-related issues and information search.
Other activities
Both libraries have room for studying. There's a printer in the Kalevankatu library, which can be used for printing study materials.
Contact information
Klaus Kiljunen, Library assistant
Phone: 09-31079632, 040 038 1080