• Approaches to learning (ATL) are grounded in the belief that learning how to learn is fundamental to a student’s education.

• Five categories of interrelated skills and associated sub-skills support students of all ages to become self-regulated learners.

• Through a variety of strategies, teachers collaboratively plan for implicit and explicit opportunities to develop ATL both inside and outside the programme of inquiry.

By implementing the ATLs into all aspects of the learning day, students are engaged in opportunities o practice and promote skills that lead them to become self-regulated learners. Self-regulated learners are agents of their own learning and ultimately develop skills to set goals, ask effective questions, persevere, reflect, adjust throughout their learning, and collaborate effectively in project based assignments (Zimmerman and Schunk 2001; de Bruin et al. 2012; Wolters 2011).