Grade ten teachers implementation of the South African Curriculum

The CAPS is the South African curriculum which aims to address the challenges that were experienced as a result of the implementation of the National Curriculum Statement. After consultation with stakeholders and considering the concerns raised by the teachers at the implementation level, the Department of Basic Education decided to review the National Curriculum Statement in order to address the issues of workload, teacher confusion and the poor performance by learners. The study revealed that teachers employed various methods in implementing the curriculum at a classroom level although some aspects of the curricular spider web do not appear in their lesson preparations and lesson presentations as stated in the CAPS document and as indicated by various scholars. Teachers still apply the NCS approach when teaching the CAPS because they are not aware that the NCS was a competence curriculum whereas the CAPS is a performance curriculum. The findings of this study may assist the Department of Education, curriculum designers and managers in strengthening the support based on improved methodology.