Before the course, I never focused on the main concepts as I never really thought them essential to "real life" as a speech-language pathologist. I now have a very different perspective on why these aspects are important and how they move cognition forward.
ZOOM TRAINING 2 FEEDBACK
The sessions were clear, informative, exciting, well presented, practical, logical and relevant to the context of teaching young learners.
Metro Central, October 2013
What stood out for me - was not teaching the content, but how to teach the concept and so much vocabulary is elicited …
Thinking Stars: Teacher Feedback From Training, August 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
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)
I am blown away!!! This is most definitely the most useful course that I have ever attended.
Overberg District, Western Cape Department of Education (February, 2019)