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Metro South Training, Western Cape Department of Education, 2013

Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 00:00 to Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 00:00

Target Group: Grade R and Grade 1 Teachers

Number of participants: 30 teachers  

Dates: 24 + 28-31 January 2013

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

For more information: Contact Fiella Williams (see email address below).

 See documents below for feedback from training

  • Metro South Education District
  • Metro South Education District
  • Metro South Education District
  • Teachers at training Session 1
  • Teachers at training Session 2
  • Teachers demonstrating the model at training Session 4
  • Teachers demonstrating the model at training Session 4
  • Teachers demonstrating the model at training Session 4
  • Teachers demonstrating the model at training Session 4
  • Teachers demonstrating the model at training Session 4
  • Metro South Education District
  • Teachers receive certificate at training Session 5
  • Samora Machel Primary: Training Venue
  • Samora Machel Primary: Parking lot and shacks
  • Teachers' conceptual understanding has improved
  • Metro South Education District
  • Metro South Education District
  • Metro South Education District
  • Metro South Education District

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

Metro Central, October 2013

I now have a broader knowledge of how to teach various concepts and reach all intelligences and learning styles.

Thinking Stars: Teacher Feedback From Training, August 2014

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 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

The BCP is the best place to start for learners with limited vocabulary and for closing the vocabulary gap.

Christel House Training, July 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