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Metro Central Training: Western Cape Education Department (February, 2016)

Saturday, February 6, 2016 - 08:30 to Tuesday, February 9, 2016 - 16:30

Part of the Project

Training Details:-

Target Group: Grade R, Grade 1, and Learning Support Teachers

Number of participants: 25

Dates: 6 + 9 + 10 + 13 February 2016

For more information: Contact Kristin Poulter (see email address below).

Note: Training is open to teachers from Metro Central only.

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Kristin.Poulter@westerncape.gov.za

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

‘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

The BCP focuses on the learner… where the teacher acts as a mediator, prompts to access logical thinking and develops language.

Metro Central: Training, October 2014

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)
BCP Short Course, UCT (June 2013)

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

I found all aspects of the course very effective.  I now have a very good understanding of how to teach all the concepts.  I am going to be more specific and detailed when I teach. I need to research and plan my basic concepts lessons ...

Ikwezi: Schools Development Unit, July 2014