The BCP is the best place to start for learners with limited vocabulary and for closing the vocabulary gap.
Christel House Training, July 2014
The sessions were clear, informative, exciting, well presented, practical, logical and relevant to the context of teaching young learners.
Metro Central, October 2013
Practical, useful, clear, scaffolded for use in the classroom. Very approachable lecturer and lessening of anxiety through post-workshop contact.
Open Public Training, 2015 (Cape Town)
The emphasis on language throughout the programme helps to develop learners' understanding of concepts and expand their vocabulary. The BCP stops learners from guessing, it gives them more structure and develops their cognitive functioning.
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
It helps learners to think and forms (the) foundation for reading, writing and mathematics.
Metro South Education District: Training (January, 2013)
The programme is explicitly linked to the South African curriculum (NCS) and references issues which are confronted by all teachers and challenges of ‘laying foundational’ thinking.’