The workshop was very educative and an eye-opener. These are things that we usually just take for-granted.
Kwena Basic Education Trust
We were taught the theory as well as the practice. I now feel confident to start to implement the programme with my class and even with my nieces and nephews.
Mitchell's Plain Primary School, November 2015
Before the course, I never focused on the main concepts as I never really thought them essential to "real life" as a speech-language pathologist. I now have a very different perspective on why these aspects are important and how they move cognition forward.
ZOOM TRAINING 2 FEEDBACK
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
Developed new method/techniques on how to use myself better in sessions and get better potential from children.’ (KIDZPOSITIVE, Occupational Therapist, 2011)
Teacher 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.
‘It is an effective mediation tool that can provide structure to those teachers who have lost sight of the objectives of teaching. It offers a step-by-step model that should be transferable … '