Curriculum Taught Curriculum Is the

Curriculum Taught curriculum is the curriculum which teachers choose to teach, independent of the influence of others. It is derived from the teacher's personal knowledge of their subject, their experience in teaching the content, their personal preference for specific topic and their perception of the needs, attitudes and knowledge level of those who they are teaching. One example of taught curriculum may be a teacher choosing to extend the knowledge of their class on the topic of measurement, past that required by the official curriculum.

This would be an example of taught curriculum as it would be based on the teacher's perception that the class needs an extension of the topic, and would be attained through the teacher's own knowledge, such as the teacher showing the class the applications of measurement in an engineering context (Cuban, 1995). Written curriculum is a curriculum which is explicit and forms part of a formal instruction. The contents of a written curriculum have usually been reviewed by administrators and curriculum directors.

An example of a written curriculum would a curriculum issued by the state education department instructing schools of the elements which must be taught in grade six mathematics (Wilson, 2005). Learned curriculum is that which children learn through unspecified means, through the environment embedded in the classroom and the modeling of the teacher. This curriculum relates mostly to the ways in which the child learns to use and process information, and the behaviors which they learn through example.

An example of learned behavior would be learning how it is expected of the child to behave when being addressed by the teacher (Cuban, 1995). Supported curriculum is that which is shaped by the resources which are available in teaching the curriculum. These include resources such as time, personnel, textbooks and other learning resources which are available. One example of supported curriculum would be when children are learning to count.

The availability of time and an outside play area may mean that the children are taken outside to count physical objects in the environment, such as trees, flowers and so on (Glatthorn et al., 2006). Recommended curriculum is that which has been tried and tested by another professional or institution which has shown to be successful in achieving some outcome.

An example of a recommended curriculum would be the recommendation of a curriculum on one school's Web site which they have found to be particularly successful at teaching sixth grade students how to apply numerical techniques to real world applications (Wilson, 2005). Tested curriculum is that which is taught in order to be assessed. One example of tested curriculum would be in spelling, where a child is given a list of spellings to take home and learn in preparation to be tested at some later stage.

There is no other motive behind the curriculum other than for the child to learn the information presented (Cuban, 1995). The hidden curriculum relates to the aspects of schooling which are implicit, such as aspects which produce changes in the students' values, perceptions and behaviors. These changes may be either desirable or undesirable, depending upon the behaviors and attitudes learnt. This has the power to affect an educational institution, particularly if the hidden curriculum produces undesirable effects in children (Glatthorn et al., 2006).

For example in a school in which many of the children are perceived to develop worsening behavior and attitudes as they get older, there are likely to be repercussions from both parents and school governing bodies which would force the school to take action and change various elements of the organization. The excluded curriculum is that which is excluded either intentionally or unintentionally. This.