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Metro North Education District, WCED, 2009

Monday, September 7, 2009 - 00:00

Number of participants: 87

Target Group: Learning Support Educators, Unit Teachers, Learning Support Advisors

Number of hours of training: 24hrs

Contact Person: Annemarie Roux

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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Teachers use questions that evoke thinking and inquiry, so that the learners are able to discover and experience for themselves.

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The course was clear, open and easy to understand basic concepts. What I liked most was that it links with the curriculum and it really works. It needs to be implemented at my centre.

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‘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

What stood out for me - was not teaching the content, but how to teach the concept and so much vocabulary is elicited …

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'It was well run... Knowledge gained priceless. It taught me vital strategies in the teaching model for optimal learning and understanding to take place.' (Metro Central, 2012)

 

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