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Die Bron Primary School: Visit 1

Saturday, September 17, 2016 - 08:00 to Sunday, September 18, 2016 - 16:00

Visit 1: Initial Set-Up Training For The Project

The visit aims to initiate the school's teachers and volunteers to the project.

They will all receive the first two days of the BCP training.

Thereafter, both teachers and volunteers will start to practise the first two conceptual domains (colour and shape) until the end of the year.

A follow up support visit will be offered before the end of the year.

 

Details of the training:

Date: 17 + 18 September

Time: 8-00 - 16h00

Venue: Die Bron Primary School

Participants: Foundation Phase Educators and Star Literacy Project

 

See docs below for feedback from training

 

‘It is an excellent programme. Just a pity that not all reception year educators are exposed to the training. My understanding of the programme- it is developed to systematically mediate concepts so that learners are guided to develop an understanding and so that learning is meaningful.’ (Metro Central, 2012)

Training 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)
BCP Short Course, UCT (June 2013)

The BCP is about the way we talk to the children in class and how we give lessons in class. How we should introduce a topic to the children and mediate with them.

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

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

This is an excellent programme that can benefit any learner or educator.

Metro Central (2013): Training
Metro Central Education District

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

Public Open Training, Cape Town (2014)