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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

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)

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

Very informative. Well planned. Well organised. Based on CAPS. Good intervention programme.

Metro Central Training: WCED (February, 2015)

Practical demonstration of mediation. Louis is an excellent mediator and it really helped to see it demonstrated. Loved the dedication, enthusiasm and firm belief in worth of BC approach to learning. I really think you opened our eyes to new methods of promoting learning and especially development of language.

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

It is a method of teaching…to establish the basic foundations or building blocks in order for children to make sense of the environment around them.  

Die Bron Primary School: Visit 1

It helps learners to think and forms (the) foundation for reading, writing and mathematics.

Metro South Education District: Training (January, 2013)