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School and classroom visits for the purposes of mentoring and monitoring are an essential feature of the Basic Concepts Programme.
The start of the project was daunting, particulary the introduction of a new teaching approach into these multi-grade classes.
Two interesting observations made in the report:-
A full description of the Metro Central Basic Concepts project and an interim evaluation were presented in the form of a poster at the IACESA Conference, 2008.
The results of this follow-up testing one year after the intervention indicated that learners had maintained and in most cases improved on their 2006 scores.
The following are some examples of learner writing gathered during the project.
The project results for successive cohorts of learners in each particular grade showed a positive trend towards the norm.
The project was run at Umthombo Wolwazi School, a farm school in a remote region of the Northern Cape accessible only on a gravel road.
