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Kwena Basic Education Trust: Project Visit, October 2014

Monday, September 29, 2014 - 08:00 to Friday, October 3, 2014 - 12:00

Part of the Project

Kwena Basin Education Trust

Visit 1 to Kwena Basin Trust

The goal of the first visit to the project is to orientate and introduce teachers to the Basic Concepts Programme. Teachers will be trained to mediate the first two conceptual domains (colour and shape) and will thereafter receive support inside the classroom as they start to implement the programme.

The project leader will also make contact with key project role players, namely trustees of the Kwena Basin Education Trust, officials of the Mpumalanga Department of Education and local community leaders.

 

Visit Programme:-

Day 1, 29 September: Full day training 1

Day 2, 30 September: Full day training 2

Day 3, 01 October: School Visits (x2 schools)

Day 4, 02 October: School Visits (x2 Schools)

Day 5, 03 October: Meeting with local role players

 

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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

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

The training was very effective and informative … and gave us insight into how to teach and develop language. I wish there could be more of such training to develop ourselves further.

Metro South Education District: Teacher Training (February, 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)

I have learned new strategies to use across the CAPS curriculum, also new exciting ways to build language. I've become more aware of the language that I use in my classroom.

Metro Central Training: Western Cape Education Department (February, 2016)