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Dynamic Assessment Workshop, Cape Town, 2015

Monday, February 23, 2015 - 08:30 to Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - 15:30

Dynamic Assessment Of The Younger Child

The workshop aims to provide participants with a theoretical background to dynamic assessment as well as to provide practical experience in the use of dynamic assessment instruments.

In dynamic assessment the tester, in the role of mediator, engages the learner in an interactive process of teaching and learning while assessing.

Learn how to administer three dynamic assessment instruments developed for younger children

  • Dates: 22 and 23 February 2015
  • Times: 8h30 for 9.00 - 15h00 (22 Feb) & 15h00 - 21h00 (23 Feb)
  • Fees: R1,950.00 and R950.00 for students
  • Venue: To be decided

The workshop is presented by Dr Louis Benjamin

For more information click on documents below

Documents

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

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

The BCP provides "tools" for higher-level learning.

Public Open Training, Cape Town (2014)

This was a fruitful, educational, informative, empowering, enjoyable, helpful, superb, well-planned, and inspiring experience.

Metro South Education District: Teacher Training, May 2014

The sessions were clear, informative, exciting, well presented, practical, logical and relevant to the context of teaching young learners.

Metro Central, October 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