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Making mediational teaching come alive with the BCP
Find out more about the studies conducted.
Phase 3 of the Northern Cape Project in 2024 is going amazingly well!
Wishing everyone a joyful and blessed Easter Weekend!
Happy Human Rights Day from the Basic Concepts Programme! Let's honor the struggle for equality and justice within South Africa
Read more about the BCP interventions at this private school in Cape Town.
Read more about our work at this school that operates in a very challenging environment.
Read more about our new Focus School in the Southern Suburbs.
Find out more about our work at this model public school in the Southern Suburbs.
Find out about our work in Ocean View in our new Focus School.

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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

‘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

I realize that children need to know their basic concepts so that they can develop understanding of the content of the curriculum.

Metro South Education District: Teacher Training, May 2014

‘I thoroughly enjoyed this workshop as I was given the opportunity to work with learners … while being guided. The trainer demonstrations with the learners were an excellent idea. This workshop has been a success as I can now see what our learners lack. It made a lot of sense.’ (Metro South, 2009)

Teacher Training

Basic Concepts are the building blocks on which cognition and perception is built.

Metro Central Training: WCED (February, 2015)

Before the course, I never focused on the main concepts as I never really thought them essential to "real life" as a speech-language pathologist. I now have a very different perspective on why these aspects are important and how they move cognition forward.

ZOOM TRAINING 2 FEEDBACK