What is worth learning?
In this module we learned about the three different types of curriculum used based on many different factors. The first one is Hidden Curriculum, this is when we are taught something unintentional, students learn something from the explicit curriculum. Explicit Curriculum is something intentionally taught from the teacher. Lastly, Null Curriculum is lessons omitted from the explicit curriculum. While all of these are teaching students, we can't control everything. For example we cannot control how a student interprets the lesson we are teaching or what they believe what is worth learning for themselves. As a future teacher I have been taught so far in my classes that everyone is worthy of learning and that we need to teach what is said in the textbooks. While I don't disagree with that, I also believe that there is some stuff our textbooks don't have but I may feel is necessary for them to learn. As stated in "Doing Right By Our Students", we need to evaluate what the curriculum is wanting us to teach and make sure that it is doing right by every student, but it is also not right for the teacher to fear teaching something. I created a black out poem using that article, "reclaim real learning and safety and racial trauma, help prepare teachers curriculum violence discipline. reflective and reflexive important questions curricula continued support antiracist at its core joy and resistance the wrong reaction, avoid teaching black histories fear of perpetuating curriculum violence. choosing to omit same impact. the right thing by our students." Although this may look like a bunch of random words jumbled together, these words were the most important words for me.
Hi Rachel! You made some really great points that I had not considered while reading through the module. It is true that we can not control how our students interpret our lessons, but we can make sure that our lessons are as inclusive as possible. A great way to make sure that this is the case is to simply ask your students for their feedback on your lessons. You could ask them what would make them feel more included or what would appeal to them the most. I also like that you brought up the idea that the textbooks are not always the best source to learn from. I think many times teachers can forget that the textbooks were also written by a human being and therefore they are subject to their own biases. This also makes you realize how harmful it could be for a child to read false information in a textbook that even the teacher did not think to question.
ReplyDeleteHi Kassi, thank you for commenting! I agree with you that we should ask our students for their feedback and just ask them what they need more of.
DeleteHello Rachel, I enjoyed reading your blog post from this week about this post. First, I understood most of that your blog was about, however, make sure the grammar in your blog is correct. In your blog you stated “everyone is worthy of learning … While I don’t agree with that …” this makes it seem like you don’t agree all students should have the right to an education. Make sure, so that there’s no misinterpretation, to re-read your entire post to ensure it makes sense. Second, I agree that we cannot determine how our students interpret our lessons. To add to this thought, as teachers it is part of our job to ensure our students are open minded about the ideas we are giving them by showing them and teaching them about a variety of lessons. Overall, your blog post had a lot of really thoughts, just make sure to double check the grammar and that it makes sense.
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DeleteHi Cami, thank you for your input, I said that "I don't disagree with that" after I said we need to teach everything in our textbooks. Meaning there is stuff that our textbooks don't have in it that we may feel necessary to teach.
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