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• What are Basic Concepts?
• What Is The BCP?
• How is the BCP Structured?
• The content of the BCP
• What higher order cognitive functions are
  focussed on in the BCP?
• The philosophy of the BCP
• Training of BC Mediators
• Core components of the BCP
• Who would benefit from participating in the BCP?
• The BCP Home Programme


What Is The BCP?
                                    While there are many cognitive education programmes, few of these are metacognitive. Metacognitive programmes focus on how children apply their cognitive functions to solve particular problems. For example, children are encouraged not only to provide answers, but to examine how they arrived at these answers (and not at others). Metacognitive educational programmes are therefore not only concerned with teaching cognitive strategies to solve problems, but encourage children to develop an awareness of how to plan, regulate and evaluate their thinking while working on a problem.
The BCP is a metacognitive programme for children who experience learning difficulties. The programme was developed to enhance the higher order cognitive functioning of young children. The programme promotes thinking patterns considered important for success in all school learning areas, particulary in reading, writing, spelling and mathematics.


 
A programme developed by Louis
Benjamin, PhD
 
The Basic Concepts Programme