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A full description of the Metro Central Basic Concepts project and an interim evaluation were presented in the form of a poster at the IACESA Conference, 2008.

The results of this follow-up testing one year after the intervention indicated that learners had maintained and in most cases improved on their 2006 scores.

The following are some examples of learner writing gathered during the project.

The project results for successive cohorts of learners in each particular grade showed a positive trend towards the norm.
BASIC CONCEPTS PROGRAMME IN THE NAMAQUALAND
Hantam Community Education Trust

The project was run at Umthombo Wolwazi School, a farm school in a remote region of the Northern Cape accessible only on a gravel road.

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I really cannot wait to start- I want all my children to be Grade 1 ready at the end of this year.

Metro South Training, Western Cape Education Department, 2015

I found this course extremely helpful. One of the best I have attended. The programme makes so much sense and has really made me think!

Public Open Training, Cape Town (2014)

The emphasis on language throughout the programme helps to develop learners' understanding of concepts and expand their vocabulary. The BCP stops learners from guessing, it gives them more structure and develops their cognitive functioning.

Metro Central Teacher Comment (July 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)
BCP Short Course, UCT (June 2013)

Now I can help the learners from our poorer areas to verbalize for themselves…  they are becoming more confident and starting to love their educational journey.

Metro Central (2013); Training

‘The trainer was very good and it was refreshing to be part of a workshop that can actually make a difference in the lives and minds of learners.’ (Metro North, 2010)

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