Metro Central: Western Cape Department of Education (February 2017)

Tuesday, February 21, 2017 - 13:30 to Thursday, February 23, 2017 - 16:00

Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - 13:30 to Thursday, March 2, 2017 - 16:00

Part of the Project

Metro Central Education District, Cape Town

Training Details:-

Purpose of the training: How to adminster, score and interpret the results of the Test of Basic Concepts Knowledge (TBCK-R)

Target Group: Learning Support Teachers

Number of participants: 70 (35 + 35)

Venue: Metro, Ndabeni, Cape Town

Dates: 21 + 23 February 2017 (Cluster 1) 28 February + 2 March (Cluster 2)

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

Note: Training is open to Learning Support Teachers from Metro Central only.

Email

Kristin.Poulter@westerncape.gov.za

‘It is an excellent programme. Just a pity that not all reception year educators are exposed to the training. My understanding of the programme- it is developed to systematically mediate concepts so that learners are guided to develop an understanding and so that learning is meaningful.’ (Metro Central, 2012)

Training Feedback

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 is foundational to a child's learning. It is the building blocks on which all other concepts are built. A concept needs to be fully understood by a child before a new concept can be taught. We often rush children's learning due to time constraints which is not correct.’ (KIDZPOSITIVE, Occupational Therapist, 2011)

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

'It was well run... Knowledge gained priceless. It taught me vital strategies in the teaching model for optimal learning and understanding to take place.' (Metro Central, 2012)

Teacher Feedback About Training (2012)