I realized that if one lays down a solid foundation for your learners they will become self-assured and confident human beings.
Metro Central, October 2013
Strategies to help teachers to support learners to think, as well as thinking about how thinking occurs and what the gaps might be.
Open Public Training, Cape Town (2013)
It was a weekend to remember… I had enough time to make plans for things at home. Thank you, it was a joy to listen to someone so passionate about his work.
Die Bron Primary School: Visit 1
The Basic Concepts Programme is basically the same as Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development. It is a way of teaching… it gives individuals a way to structure their thinking and reasoning.
Mitchell's Plain Primary School, November 2015
‘All foundation phase educators, esp. Grade R, should attend this workshop. If everyone in the education system uses this BCP model, we should see remarkable improvements in the learners' LIT/NUM over a couple of years.’ (Metro North, 2009)
Teacher Feedback
It made me look at my teaching in a different way. I am excited to implement what I have learnt.
‘It is an effective mediation tool that can provide structure to those teachers who have lost sight of the objectives of teaching. It offers a step-by-step model that should be transferable … '