Impacts of curriculum in teaching and planning

Learning process depends on the knowledge,vision and understanding of a teacher. Learners can only go as high as teachers can go. Curriculum is the guide line provided by the authorities. The authorities can be Government Ministry, Education department, Curriculum Development Center, or School Curriculum board or committee. Authorities provide documented guidelines for teacher so that teachers can easily move forward and plan their learning activities.

According to John Kerr curriculum is:
"All the learning which is planned and guided by the school, whether it is carried on in groups or individually, inside or outside the school." (John Kerr)
There are three types of curriculum which must be taken into account by the teachers before planning and teaching.
Following are the different types of curriculum:
1. Formal Curriculum
2. Informal Curriculum
3. Hidden Curriculum

Formal Curriculum:
Formal curriculum is the document or set of documents provided by the authorities. This documented set of guidelines is provided to teacher. Teachers are bound to plan their learning activities according to the written curriculum. Learning according to the formal curriculum takes place in the classroom. Different subjects are covered in the classroom's academic activities. Teachers must understand formal curriculum very deeply and thoroughly and then they may plan classroom based learning activities to achieve the targets defined in formal curriculum.

Informal Curriculum:
Informal curriculum is an extention of formal curriculum. Formal curriculum takes place mostly in classrooms but informal curriculum takes place in mostly out side the classroom. Informal curriculum activities include the students participation in Sports, Debates, Theaters, Games, Dramas etc.
In these activites students learn many social skills. They learn leadership qualities, working in and with team, Problem solving, conflict resolusion and critical thinking skills. Teachers must also be involve in these activities and may plan informal curriculum activities on the bases of their understanding of the core of curriculum.

Hidden Curriculum:
In my view point hidden curriculum is the most powerful aspect of the learning environment. In most schools this hidden curriculum is never taken into account. Mostly teachers are not aware of this kind of curriculum. Hidden curriculum is all around the school. Its not visible as any learning activity. Hidden curriculum is nothing but behaviour of teachers with students and with each other. Its the philosophy of the school on which school is beeing managed. When we talk to students about discipline and teach them how to bring discipline in their life, we must show discipline in our life as well because students are observing us every time we are in front of them. Our character is copied by the students and all this influence occored because hidden curriculum is in work. We as a teacher must consider this factor of curriculum very consiously and may plan our life as teacher keeping in mind that every bit of our word and very movement of our body is part of learning scheme.

Planning a student centric learning session

Critical factors of Three way relationship of Teacher, Curriculum and Students

Children learn from everything they found in their surroundings. Rich environment at home and in the school can enhance childs learning eperiences. When its comes to the school it becomes teacher's primary responsiblity to create rich learning environment and device practicle activities. Teacher, Curriculum and Studnet makes Trilogy of learning. Teachers as being facilitators or being guides they must plan to learning activities to fullfil the aims and objects provided by the curriculum outlines.

Teacher must must understand the three ways relationship of Teacher, Curriculum and Students. Before planning learning session teachers may consider following factors:

Curriculum is main source of learning through which teacher can get the idea about learning targets. Teacher must understand and interpret the curriculum in full length. If teacher is not full aware of aims and guildlines provided by curriculum then learning process can not meet its required objectives.

Teacher's approach to devices learning activities must be student centeric rather than teacher centeric. Teacher may understand the student's individuality. Every student is different from others. Generalized assupmtions about learning and students may not work. 

Before planning learning session, teacher may also keep in mind that students from different socio-economic backgrounds have different levels of understanding and experiences. Learning activities must cop with the students who are little slow or can not understand the learning examples. Like if you talk about drill experience at dentist clinic, some students might have never visited the dentists so they can not understand the drill experience you are talking about.

As far as the learning capacity is concerned, students in the class are usually not at the same level. Some students are very bright while on the other hand some studnets have difficulties on the same learning pracitices. Teacher must consider the differnce of learning capacity in the students and plan learning activities keeping the slow students in mind as well. Planning of learning activies must cator all types of learning capacities of students.