University study requires students to take responsibility for their own learning, to be more self-directed, to make their own decisions about what they will focus on and how much time they will spend on learning both inside and outside the classroom. How can you get the students up to this point by the end of the course or the year?

First of all, I have to let the learners know that I will be just a guide or facilitator for them, and they’ll have to work with independence; in other words, the teacher has to encourage the students to autonomously engage in their studies and to think by themselves, so that they can become their own learning builder.

I would like to put into practice Belle Wallace’s independent learning framework, which is called: TASC  ( Thinking Actively in a Social Context ). Whenever I teach a specific topic, I’d like to make my students follow the stages of the TASC WHEEL from the beginning to the end.

The TASC WHEEL is a cycle that learners should work in, and it consists of the following segments:

ORGANIZE:

Students explore their schemata that will be the basis to start working.

IDENTIFY:

It is to set the tasks they will work on.

GENERATE:

To think about worthwhile ideas to succeed on the work.

DECIDE:

The group gets together and choose the best decisions.

IMPLEMENT:

It means to start working.

EVALUATE:

In this stage, students have to be aware if they have achieved the main purpose of the work.