Share the thinking processes!
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.

Practice the skills!
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.

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. The slogan for the day is: 'Maximum Thinking! Minimum Recording!'

Usually the activities can be carried out with 'clean junk' and bits of extra materials such as glue, masking tape, paint, materials to decorate.
Some examples include: Designing and making a robot with one or more moving parts; a model of our new playground; a café for counting; a Viking boat; a swing for our model park.

Sometimes the introduction of TASC is spread over several afternoons, or even over half a term: Planning our disco, our sports day, our parents' evening, our pond area.

The scope for introductory TASC activities is endless!