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Metro South Training: Western Cape Department of Education (February 2018)

Tuesday, February 20, 2018 - 13:30 to Wednesday, February 21, 2018 - 16:30

Part of the Project

Training Details:-

Target Group: Learning Support Teachers and Grade 1

Number of participants: 25

Dates:  13 + 14 + 15 + 20 + 21 February 2018

Time: 13h30 - 16h30

Venue: Metro South Education District (AZ Berman Dr, Lentegeur, Cape Town, 7786)

For more information: Contact Mimi Jiya (see email address below)

Note: Training is open to teachers from Metro South only

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Mimi.Jiya@westerncape.gov.za

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

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

Presentation was well organized and clear. The lecturer explained extensively about the content of the course. The programme should be implemented by all Foundation Phase teachers and be recognized by government. The BCP is CAPS aligned.

Schools Improvement Initiative, UCT (June 2013)
INTSHAYELELO PRIMARY

It helps learners to think and forms (the) foundation for reading, writing and mathematics.

Metro South Education District: Training (January, 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

I found all aspects of the course very effective.  I now have a very good understanding of how to teach all the concepts.  I am going to be more specific and detailed when I teach. I need to research and plan my basic concepts lessons ...

Ikwezi: Schools Development Unit, July 2014