The BCP provides "tools" for higher-level learning.
Public Open Training, Cape Town (2014)
The sessions were clear, informative, exciting, well presented, practical, logical and relevant to the context of teaching young learners.
Metro Central, October 2013
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
I understand now that teaching is not just standing in front of the class, but a discussion/ dialogue with your children.
Metro South Education District: Teacher Training, May 2014
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.
‘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 … '