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The Basic Concepts Foundation recently completed its fourth round of support visits to schools participating in the MEED project
Concept Builders
17 September 2026 to 21 October 2026
Building the foundations for learning - Open for Registration
Basic Concepts Foundation has launched its first school-based Concept Builders intervention in Cape Town
Numbers are foundational – learners need to understand what numbers represent and how they are used in everyday life before moving to more complex number concepts.
Twenty years ago, our research identified the centrality of teachers to educational change.
Twenty years ago, the Basic Concepts Programme was simply a doctoral research project exploring an important question
Reflections from the first two training sessions highlight participants' growing understanding of mediated learning and its application in everyday practice.
The most important learning begins long before children enter school.
Helping to build a comprehensive mediational teaching framework
20 July 2026
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Today’s workshop was very interesting because it shows us where to start when you teach letter, e.g. I can see, sound, feel, touch and draw the letter A...

Kwena Basin Education Trust: Project Visit, September 2016

Very informative, well presented, engaging, coherent and thought provoking.

Metro South Training, Western Cape Education Department, 2015

Basic concept is about improving teaching methods, language and the learning processes of our learners.

Pixley Kaseme: Training Sessions 1+2

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)

Thank you very much for the training. We learnt so much from you and how to run the programme... This was interesting and we really enjoyed it.

Kwena Basic Education Trust

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