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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

Part of the Project

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
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Documents

Email

fiwillia@westerncape.gov.za

Presentation was well organized and clear. The lecturer explained extensively about the content of the course. The programme should be implemented by all Foundation Phase teachers and be recognized by government. The BCP is CAPS aligned.

Schools Improvement Initiative, UCT (June 2013)
INTSHAYELELO PRIMARY

Basic Concepts are the building blocks on which cognition and perception is built.

Metro Central Training: WCED (February, 2015)

Now I can help the learners from our poorer areas to verbalize for themselves…  they are becoming more confident and starting to love their educational journey.

Metro Central (2013); Training

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

Public Open Training, Cape Town (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

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