This week the grade 9 students practised a variety of the Approaches to Learning Skills in order to develop as learners.
They practised Social skills of Collaboration by negotiating tasks and ensuring every person in their team gets help to succeed in completing the individual parts for the team. In addition to collaboration, grade 9s also practised self-management skills pertaining to time and task management to complete tasks within set time parameters. Finally, the students explored other teams’ work and engaged in reflection skills to determine what they did well in comparison to other teams and what they could have done better with regard to task completion, time management, and collaboration.