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Namaqua Education District (Phase 2): Training of Northern Cape Department of Education Officials

Tuesday, May 17, 2016 - 09:00 to Wednesday, May 18, 2016 - 16:00

We will be training 14 ECD officilals from the Northern Cape Department of Education (NCDOE) as mediators of the Basic Concepts Programme.

The officials, as part of their training, will shadow the teachers who have recently started Phase 2 of the Namaqua District project.

The officials will continue their training in the Namaqua District.

Our formal partnership with NCDOE aims to start the process of scaling Basic Concepts to all Grade R teachers in the Northern Cape.

 

Training Details:

Dates: 17 - 18 May 2016

Time: 9am - 4pm

Place: Kimberley, Northern Cape

Venue: Teacher's Centre

For more information contact: Mrs Seapei Lepita (see email address below)

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

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

Open Public Training, Cape Town (2013)
BCP Short Course, UCT (June 2013)

It made me rethink how I teach and how I can change the language I use.

Christel House Training, July 2014

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

Metro South Training, Western Cape Education Department, 2015

The BCP is about the way we talk to the children in class and how we give lessons in class. How we should introduce a topic to the children and mediate with them.

Northern Cape Project (Phase 2, 2020-2021): Training Feedback

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