What is Worth Learning?
What is worth learning? This week we read material over the different types of curriculum and what they mean. What I didn't know before reading was how prevalent the hidden curriculum really is. This is the part of lessons that the teacher sometimes won't even realize they are teaching. Teachers will teach that "boys are strong" and "girls are princesses" or like the women in the article "Ending Curriculum Violence" explains that her teacher had students picking cotton for a lesson in elementary school. These are examples of things that are not in the explicit curriculum and in the state standards. This curriculum is violent to kids mental and emotional health. When reading "Ending Curriculum Violence," I was able to take the most important parts I thought and write a black out poem over the material. My black out poem is the following: Black Students Are examples Of racial trauma What does this mean? K–12, private, publ