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Northern Cape Project: Master Trainers- Part 2 (2023)

Monday, October 23, 2023 - 08:30 to Friday, October 27, 2023 - 12:30

Master Trainers: Final Training Week

The focus of this week's training will be on the final conceptual domains that were not covered earlier in the year.

In addition, the week will give us the opportunity for the Northern Cape Officials to support and mentor educators in the last two domains of the programme.

The prospective trainers would thus have had the opportunity to see the entire process, from the training of the teachers and reflection on the process to the follow-through inside the classroom.

This makes for a fully immersive experience for the new trainers.

 

Masters Training Programme:

23th Oct:
Session 1: Participation in the Number training session (8h30-16h00)
Session 2: Reflection and consolidation session (16h00 - 18h00)

24th Oct:
Session 1: Participation in the Letter training session (8h30-16h00)
Session 2: Reflection and consolidation session (16h00 - 18h00)

25th Oct:
Session 1: Support and Mentoring Visit to Schools (8h30-12h30)
Session 2: Feedback and reflection session (14h00-16h00)

26th Oct:
Session 1: Support and Mentoring Visit to Schools (8h30-12h30)
Session 2: Feedback and reflection session (14h00-16h00)

27th Oct:
Session 1: Support and Mentoring Visit to Schools (8h30-12h30)

Note:
I.  See the school visit programme below.
2. All reports from the visits are available online.

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

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

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

I realized that if one lays down a solid foundation for your learners they will become self-assured and confident human beings.

Metro Central, October 2013

Before the workshop I thought (that) I knew how to teach or introduce my lessons, but now I know that I was not doing justice to my learners. I took them for granted ... as if (they would) very easily understand my instructions.

Metro South Education District: Teacher Training (January, 2013)

‘BCP is foundational to a child's learning. It is the building blocks on which all other concepts are built. A concept needs to be fully understood by a child before a new concept can be taught. We often rush children's learning due to time constraints which is not correct.’ (KIDZPOSITIVE, Occupational Therapist, 2011)

Teacher Feedback