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Metro Central Training: Western Cape Department of Education 2014

Saturday, February 15, 2014 - 08:30 to Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 16:00

Target Group: Grade R, Grade 1, and Learning Support Teachers

Number of participants: 25

Dates: 15 + 22 February 2014 + 8 March 2014

Note: Training is open to teachers from Metro Central only.

For more information: Contact Thandiwe Klaas (see email address below).

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

Thank you Louis for you dedication and enthusiasm. We need our teachers to be enthused with a love of children and a passion for mediating to our learners. God Bless.

Metro Central (2013): Training
Metro Central Education District

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

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

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

Metro South Education District: Teacher Training, May 2014

Strategies to help teachers to support learners to think, as well as thinking about how thinking occurs and what the gaps might be.

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