Basic Concepts are the building blocks on which cognition and perception is built.
Metro Central Training: WCED (February, 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
‘It was one of the best training sessions that Metro North has presented….’ (Metro North, 2009)
Teacher Feedback
Very informative. Very well presented. Very good use of visual aids.
Thinking Stars: Teacher Feedback From Training, August 2014
The course was clear, open and easy to understand basic concepts. What I liked most was that it links with the curriculum and it really works. It needs to be implemented at my centre.
Open Public Training, Cape Town (June 2013)
If you understand the basic concepts you will have a better understanding of more complex concepts.
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.’