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Full Material Kit

Basic Concepts Programme Materials

The full material kit includes:

Cogntive Tool Kit

  1. wooden block set (75 pieces)
  2. plastic cube set (120 cubes)
  3. plastic peg set (90 pegs) and wooden position boards (5 boards)
  4. plastic/wooden letters (26 letters) and numbers (10 numbers and 3 operations)

Picture Sets

  1. 13 picture cards

Mediator Manual

  1. background and introduction to the programme
  2. a detailed outline of 48 BC Sessions
  3. a set of tools to support the implementation of the programme: recording, evaluating and monitoring sheets
  4. a set of BC Transfer Worksheets
  5. a set of useful Appendices

The manual is available in English and Afrikaans.

Small Group Activities

  1. A3 lamenated posters representing all six conceptual domains (6 posters)
  2. workbook activity templates linked to the above posters (6 workbook templates)

The small group activities are ony available in English.

Cost: 
ZAR 2 230.00
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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 BCP provides "tools" for higher-level learning.

Public Open Training, Cape Town (2014)

For me the most effective aspect was the basic teaching model.  When I implemented the model I found that my learners were more focussed when I followed the steps of the model.

Ikwezi: Schools Development Unit, July 2014

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)

‘It was one of the best training sessions that Metro North has presented….’ (Metro North, 2009)

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)
BCP Short Course, UCT (June 2013)