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Teacher workshops alone rarely lead to sustained classroom change.
Our projects are buzzing across South Africa.
Support visits revealed growing confidence among teachers, stronger classroom preparation, improved administration, and increasing evidence of conceptual learning
Talk. Listen. Connect. Grow.
Teachers developed a solid understanding of the three size principles and explored practical ways to use them in the classroom.
Sustainable implementation does not happen through training alone.
Strengthening Confidence in Teaching POSITION Concepts
Building Confidence in Teaching SIZE Concepts
Thank you to all the schools and educators who partnered with the Basic Concepts Foundation.
Photos of our mediators and learners in action.

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The BCP provides "tools" for higher-level learning.

Public Open Training, Cape Town (2014)

I have learned new strategies to use across the CAPS curriculum, also new exciting ways to build language. I've become more aware of the language that I use in my classroom.

Metro Central Training: Western Cape Education Department (February, 2016)

I have never been to such a training. I was motivated and I can't wait to implement at the ECD and I hope I'll be doing my best!

Northern Cape Project (Phase 2, 2020-2021): Training Feedback

This was a fruitful, educational, informative, empowering, enjoyable, helpful, superb, well-planned, and inspiring experience.

Metro South Education District: Teacher Training, May 2014

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