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Basic Concepts Foundation has launched its first school-based Concept Builders intervention in Cape Town
Numbers are foundational – learners need to understand what numbers represent and how they are used in everyday life before moving to more complex number concepts.
Twenty years ago, our research identified the centrality of teachers to educational change.
Twenty years ago, the Basic Concepts Programme was simply a doctoral research project exploring an important question
Reflections from the first two training sessions highlight participants' growing understanding of mediated learning and its application in everyday practice.
The most important learning begins long before children enter school.
Helping to build a comprehensive mediational teaching framework
20 July 2026
Basic Concepts Foundation Training Dates:

 
28 July 2026
Basic Concepts Foundation Training Dates:

 
03 August 2026
Basic Concepts Foundation Training Dates:

 

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For me the most effective aspect was the basic teaching model.  When I implemented the model I found that my learners were more focussed when I followed the steps of the model.

Ikwezi: Schools Development Unit, July 2014

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)

‘It was one of the best training sessions that Metro North has presented….’ (Metro North, 2009)

Teacher Feedback

Very well put together course: well researched, well prepared, well delivered.  A course that can be trusted to yield results when applied in practice, and therefore a much needed and valuable tool to implement with learners who are in danger of failing to learn adequately.

Open Public Training, 2015 (Cape Town)

I love the programme. I was not aware of how to introduce a concept … . If I could reverse my years in teaching, I bet I would have produced mathematicians, scientists and doctors.

Metro Central Teacher Comment (July, 2013)

I really cannot wait to start- I want all my children to be Grade 1 ready at the end of this year.

Metro South Training, Western Cape Education Department, 2015