• curriculum and knowledge.

Curriculum is what is taught in the classroom, both overtly: lesson content, and covertly: way it’s presented, viewpoints that are promoted. The curriculum is produced and implemented by the government https://www.curriculumsupport.nsw.edu.au.

As I mention in Teaching Philosophy I believe the implementation of the curriculum requires a teacher building a relationship with the students in their classes and the community from which they come, an awareness of different learning styles, relating subject matter to real life and allowing opportunity for self direct learning in the classroom.

  • Hidden and unhidden:
    The syllabus distributed by the department of education consists of learning outcomes to be met in units of work for each subject. However the curriculum also consists of hidden outcomes, attitudes and outlooks to be taught through the ways things are communicated, and each school will often have covert elements to what their school wishes to focus on.