Teaching and learning: the educator as mediator of learning -- The connection between teaching and learning -- Cognitive theories of learning: Piaget -- Brunner -- Bloom -- Ausubel -- Vygotsky -- Feuerstein -- Teaching strategies -- Curriculum design and outside agencies: the educator as interpreter and designer of learning programmes -- Different models and approaches towards curriculum studies -- Tyler -- Hunkins -- Stenhouse -- Walker -- Comparison of curriculum approaches -- OBR and curriculum 2005 -- South African curriculum policy and outside agencies: The IQMS policy -- RCNS policy -- Assessment policy -- Language policy -- Education White Paper no. 6, 2001 -- HIV/Aids policy -- Official NCS documents -- Curriculum change: the framework of the NQF -- Levels, qualifications, volumes of learning and credits -- Curriculum 2005 (C2005) -- Revised National Curriculum Statement (RNCS) -- Structure of the National Curriculum Statement (NCS) -- Structure of the Revised national Curriculum Statement (RNCS) -- Structure of the National Curriculum Statement Grades 10-12 (General) -- Selecting and evaluating Learning, Teaching and Support materials (LTSMs) -- Assessing, recording and reporting: the educator as assessor -- Recognising and assessing learners' competence -- Forms of assessment -- Assessment policy documents -- Designing and managing formative and summative assessment -- Planning assessment into teaching -- Assessment methods -- Assessment tools (instruments) -- Portfolios -- Recording learner achievement -- Reporting on learner achievement -- Moderation -- Outcomes based report -- Continuous professional development: the educator as student, researcher, lifelong learner, and area / subject / discipline / phase specialist -- Development Appraisal System (DAS) for professional development The staff development team -- Instructional leadership -- Model for professional development -- Making time for professional development -- personal professional development -- Partnerships with parents and local communities: the educator as citizen and pastor member of a community -- School culture and environment: the educator as leader, administrator and manager -- The nature of school culture -- School culture: what you see and hear -- Norms as a component of school culture -- Differences in school cultures -- School culture and school improvement -- Reculturing -- Aspects of school organisational culture -- Getting started in the multicultural school -- The learner in a multicultural society -- Managing diversity in the OBE classroom -- Ethnic aspects of teaching and learning.