Die Bron Primary School: Visit 1

Saturday, September 17, 2016 - 08:00 to Sunday, September 18, 2016 - 16:00

Part of the Project

Visit 1: Initial Set-Up Training For The Project

The visit aims to initiate the school's teachers and volunteers to the project.

They will all receive the first two days of the BCP training.

Thereafter, both teachers and volunteers will start to practise the first two conceptual domains (colour and shape) until the end of the year.

A follow up support visit will be offered before the end of the year.

Details of the training:

Date: 17 + 18 September

Time: 8-00 - 16h00

Venue: Die Bron Primary School

Participants: Foundation Phase Educators and Star Literacy Project

See docs below for feedback from training

Documents

Feedback from Training Session 1 & 2

Email

info@basicconcepts.co.za

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)

I am extremely grateful for being exposed to this programme … I'm always worried about those learners who are not progressing. The programme can support these learners in order to lay the foundation for academic progress. Practically my whole class needs this Foundation!!! How can I start with formal teaching if they do not know their Basics.

Metro South Education District: Training (January, 2013)

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)

The BCP is about the way we talk to the children in class and how we give lessons in class. How we should introduce a topic to the children and mediate with them.

Northern Cape Project (Phase 2, 2020-2021): Training 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

We were taught the theory as well as the practice. I now feel confident to start to implement the programme with my class and even with my nieces and nephews.

Mitchell's Plain Primary School, November 2015