Reviews

It was an interesting and exciting opportunity, I learned so much about emotional intelligence and with that I learned some things about myself.

The course is not very hard and you have plenty of time to complete it without feeling rushed.

The course was user-friendly and the concepts were very well put together. I enjoyed learning about how to teach the Study Skills. Will definitely do another course in the future.

Thank you for the certificate. I enjoyed the course, it was easy to navigate the site and the content was explained well. I appreciate the ideas of activities which I can use in my classroom.

I really enjoyed the course. I am in management and looking for promotion and this was exactly the type of PD that I was after. The content was straightforward and easy to access. It was not tedious to complete, and teachers can easily fit in a few minutes to work on it each day. It was also affordable. I will definitely be completing your other leadership/management courses. I am also saving towards completing the Principal certificate. I was browsing through course content and it looks to be pure gold!

Philosophy for Children, run by Cathy Fry, is an informative, well-organised and interactive course spread over two days. Cathy has worked with Kingsmead College and several of our teachers for over five years. She has designed the content to fit in the age preferences of the high school students and addressed the implementation thereof into various subjects.

Cathy’s positive and patient approach to guiding and educating our teachers is always well received. She effectively manages large groups and smaller ones with ease, and she always has time for answering and engaging with our teachers.

Through a blend of theoretical discussions, practical activities, and reflective exercises the course prepares teachers well to have their own community of enquiry. It also provides many different resources to help facilitate and engage with philosophy and how teachers can incorporate critical thinking in their own subject. One of the highlights of the course is the emphasis on experiential learning. Teachers are provided with hands-on opportunities to apply theoretical concepts to real-world contexts.

Philosophy for Children is not just a course; it is a transformative intellectual journey that challenges assumptions, sparks curiosity, and cultivates a deeper understanding of the human condition.

Cathy did Philosophy for Children (P4C) training for my team of educators from Grade 0000 to Grade 7 at Pinnacle College Kyalami. The teachers were completely engrossed in the material and learned a lot about each other during the training. Much discussion ensued and teachers reported that they did not know how much brain power actually went into really grappling with philosophical concepts and dilemmas. The P4C course will definitely allow for much engagement in the classrooms in our quest to prepare our learners for a thinking world. Thank you, Cathy. We cannot wait to do Part 2.

I worked with Ukhanyiso Ebantwini for three years from 2016, as a Co-ordinator between the organization and a funder. The organization was training 200 teachers on ECD courses split as Proficiency and Level 5. Of the things that stood out with the team we were working with: Cathy Fry, Margaret Fussell and Prudence Mabhiwa, is their preparations – there were pre-class briefings on how things are going to be done in the classes, they came ready with the Course materials which was well put together, and they knew the content very well. There were also daily post-class sessions reviewing the content delivery and how it was received by the teachers and making adjustments as needed. With regards to their content, it was a lot practical to the point that during the post-course evaluation visits we did with the ECD centres, it was found that the teachers were making changes to their classes as they had learnt in the course. The posters were put up, child safety was taken care of, the teachers had made the Big Books they were taught about. The other thing that the teachers got from the courses are the skills that are being put in the kids and the reason why there is a need to instill certain skills in the kids, and what it does to the child’s foundation of learning.