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Teacher workshops alone rarely lead to sustained classroom change.
Our projects are buzzing across South Africa.
Support visits revealed growing confidence among teachers, stronger classroom preparation, improved administration, and increasing evidence of conceptual learning
Talk. Listen. Connect. Grow.
Teachers developed a solid understanding of the three size principles and explored practical ways to use them in the classroom.
Sustainable implementation does not happen through training alone.
Strengthening Confidence in Teaching POSITION Concepts
Building Confidence in Teaching SIZE Concepts
Thank you to all the schools and educators who partnered with the Basic Concepts Foundation.
Photos of our mediators and learners in action.

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Teachers use questions that evoke thinking and inquiry, so that the learners are able to discover and experience for themselves.

Metro South Training, Western Cape Education Department, 2015

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

Basic Concepts are the building blocks on which cognition and perception is built.

Metro Central Training: WCED (February, 2015)

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

This was a fruitful, educational, informative, empowering, enjoyable, helpful, superb, well-planned, and inspiring experience.

Metro South Education District: Teacher Training, May 2014