Hidden Curriculum Process Presentation

I thought todays presentation was great as well! I am definitely now feeling well informed about the hidden curriculum. This is the part that I think I was a little bit more aware about and not so much the subtleties in the texts we use.

Compliance and obedience and all the things mentioned I definitely believe to be huge in the school system. We do learn to follow many rules, procedues and routines and by the time we reach high school and much earlier as well, we do things without even realizing it or questioning it. We go to classes when the bell rings. We eat our lunch at 'lunch time'. We put our hand up to speak. We ask to go to the bathroom. We sit in 'our desk'. We do work quietly unless told otherwise. There is just an endless list of things we do all the time in school that we have been taught to do either implicitly or explicitly it's crazy! It is true though that we need our students to behave in these ways otherwise the classroom would be chaotic and work would not get done.

I thought some of the books were quite funny in the things that they were teaching kids, like listening to your parents is good behaviour and sharing with a partner and keeping a secret. Also, I forget exactly what it said but the book with the many pictures of a boy doing bad or gross things and how don't you wish you didn't have to look at him everyday? I don't think that's something we should really be teaching our students.

Anyways, hidden curriculum is definitely a huge part of schooling and it might be almost as important if not as important as the actual curriculum. Without the hidden curriculum when looking at this process stuff, students would be a lot less likely to succeed in society because they wouldn't understand norms and things such as respect for authority figures that were discussed.