Uncovering the Implicit Curriculum

Primary Audience: Teachers to all age groups, Educators with leadership responsibilities
Length of time: 4.5 hours plus a 15-minute break, given over one or two days

Workshop Details

Part 1: Uncovering aspects of the implicit curriculum

We will work in groups and use tools to uncover our unique classroom cultures just like anthropologists. We will then assess the way these cultures shape student learning and well-being and rethink practices that we have been considering a “natural” part of our classroom environments.

Part 2: Investigating the practice of evaluation

We will discuss the implicit messages that the “practice” of evaluation that we apply in our classrooms sends to our students and the way it affects their learning, performance, and wellbeing. By the end of this session, we will organize our learning from the whole workshop by building a map-like artifact that details our current classroom culture versus what we agree to be an “ideal classroom culture” that promotes deep and creative learning, student wellbeing, and the skills that our students need to lead successful lives.