Metro Central: Western Cape Department of Education (February 2017)

Tuesday, February 21, 2017 - 13:30 to Thursday, February 23, 2017 - 16:00

Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - 13:30 to Thursday, March 2, 2017 - 16:00

Part of the Project

Metro Central Education District, Cape Town

Training Details:-

Purpose of the training: How to adminster, score and interpret the results of the Test of Basic Concepts Knowledge (TBCK-R)

Target Group: Learning Support Teachers

Number of participants: 70 (35 + 35)

Venue: Metro, Ndabeni, Cape Town

Dates: 21 + 23 February 2017 (Cluster 1) 28 February + 2 March (Cluster 2)

For more information: Contact Kristin Poulter (see email address below).

Note: Training is open to Learning Support Teachers from Metro Central only.

Email

Kristin.Poulter@westerncape.gov.za

‘All foundation phase educators, esp. Grade R, should attend this workshop. If everyone in the education system uses this BCP model, we should see remarkable improvements in the learners' LIT/NUM over a couple of years.’ (Metro North, 2009)

Teacher Feedback

I love the programme. I was not aware of how to introduce a concept … . If I could reverse my years in teaching, I bet I would have produced mathematicians, scientists and doctors.

Metro Central Teacher Comment (July, 2013)

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

The workshop helped me to understand how to work with the children in the classroom. I also learnt how to ask open-ended questions that will encourage my learners to think and to ask more questions.

Pixley Kaseme: Training Sessions 1+2

Teachers use questions that evoke thinking and inquiry, so that the learners are able to discover and experience for themselves.

Metro South Training, Western Cape Education Department, 2015

'It was well run... Knowledge gained priceless. It taught me vital strategies in the teaching model for optimal learning and understanding to take place.' (Metro Central, 2012)

Teacher Feedback About Training (2012)