Differentiation+Tool

=The TASC Framework  is a useful planning and scaffolding tool to ensure that all learners have appropriately differentiated success criteria and outcomes from creative learning tasks. = = = Thinking Actively in a Social Context is a concept that was devised by Belle Wallace, Past President of NACE. The thinking skills framework encourages, supports and empowers learners.

TASC is designed to frame our thinking and structure problem - solving activities. The skills being developed will become embedded into the learner's and teacher's repertoire. The TASC Wheel represents a series of thinking skills that an expert thinker uses. An expert has automatised these processes and uses them flexibly, flipping forwards and backwards as the task demands. Very often, teachers are using these processes in their planning and delivery, but they do not usually share their thinking processes with the pupils. || Pupils can learn these expert thinking skills and gradually become more like expert thinkers. They need to use the TASC Wheel to guide the stages of their thinking. TASC provides a model for Inclusion and Personalised Learning: more able pupils can fly with it: children with special learning needs can use it as a thinking support. **Differentiation** During the ‘IDENTIFY’ stage of the cycle success criteria are agreed with individual or groups of pupils. This is the key element of the process and will be referred back to at all other stages. Success criteria can be adapted to increase challenge for more able learners or adjusted so that the learning is appropriate for pupils with special needs. **Introduce the TASC Wheel through a fun activity** The most effective way to introduce TASC to the pupils is to plan a problem-solving day that is a hands-on, creative, design and make day. The pupils work as a class, and also in small groups, thinking through the stages of the TASC Wheel, doing all the thinking, planning and making. ||
 * **Share the thinking processes! **
 * **Practice the skills! **

For more information contact Davina Salmon on dsalmon@wandsworth.gov.uk
 * The scope for introductory TASC activities is endless! ||