A Personal Message From Belle Wallace
Dear Colleagues,
The TASC Framework has been my life-search!
I wanted to find a teaching and learning framework that would:
firstly, provide teachers with a creative problem-solving framework that would allow them to make full use of their natural gifts and skills;
and secondly, provide learners with the scaffolding they need to move increasingly towards independent, autonomous learning that celebrated their many and diverse gifts.
I believe that all teachers and learners have 'gifts' and I wanted to provide the framework that would maximise and celebrate these gifts.
TASC is an inclusive framework!
In celebrating the best in all of us, we are in a 'win-win' situation!
Please give TASC a try!
Belle
Evaluations and references for Belle's work
Belle Wallace is an inspirational educator who understands the reality of classroom challenges. Her TASC Framework is comprehensible and practical. The evaluations of her work received from the TASC schools all say that TASC has had a positive influence on learners' motivation, perseverance, behaviour and achievement.
Linda Smith (Senior Adviser, St Helen's, UK)
Belle's work in developing teaching and learning based around TASC Problem-solving and Thinking Skills is outstanding. The children have been transformed into active, motivated, on-task and engaged learners.
Excerpt from Caerphilly teachers' evaluation of the TASC Framework. (Caerphilly Local Education Authority, Wales)
TASC has provided a generic problem-solving framework that suits all children from Foundation Stage to Key Stage 5. It has enabled us to empower our schools with a tool that stimulates excitement and real learning, and enables Leading Teachers from all stages and subject areas to coach and mentor each other on something that is common to all. We are seeing exciting developments within the classroom and across whole schools, with TASC being used in teachers’ CPD (Continuing Professional Development) to encourage independent lines of enquiry, in turn bringing engagement and deeper understanding.
Joy Blaker (Senior Psycholgist, Rotherham, UK)
The Ofsted inpspectors (Office for Standards in Education) when visiting Fleet Infants School (UK) praised the success of the TASC Framework:
The school promotes the Thinking Actively in a Social Context (TASC) Framework which encourages all pupils to take part in thinking through problems, to review what they already know and to plan what they want to find out next. The school is highly successful in meeting its aim to be a school 'where every child can shine in a community that promotes lifelong learning’.
Kris Radford-Rae (as School Adviser in Lincolnshire) conducted a survey to find out the effectiveness of various types of in-service training.
TASC proved to have greater stickability than other training initiative! Of the 32 schools that had received TASC training, 88% of them reported that TASC was the most effective and had become very much a part of the schools’ development plans.
