The emphasis on language throughout the programme helps to develop learners' understanding of concepts and expand their vocabulary. The BCP stops learners from guessing, it gives them more structure and develops their cognitive functioning.
Metro Central Teacher Comment (July 2013)
It was a weekend to remember… I had enough time to make plans for things at home. Thank you, it was a joy to listen to someone so passionate about his work.
Die Bron Primary School: Visit 1
The BCP focuses on the learner… where the teacher acts as a mediator, prompts to access logical thinking and develops language.
Metro Central: Training, October 2014
‘Although I have been teaching Grade R for 23 years... I have learnt so much over the past 2 weeks and have already seen a change in most of my learners.’ (Metro Central, 2012)
Teacher Feedback
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)
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 programme is explicitly linked to the South African curriculum (NCS) and references issues which are confronted by all teachers and challenges of ‘laying foundational’ thinking.’