Reading this question as a teacher, I am guessing that
your professor actually wants to hear your thoughts on these three
types of curriculum. Part of growth and development as a teacher is coming to a
personal understanding of your job as an educator. I admit, knowing the difference
between these types of curriculum may never come up once you are in the actual job,
however, I do think it is important for you to attempt to answer
the second part of your question on your own.
That said,
perhaps hearing the definitions again, in different words, will aid your
understanding.
- received
curriculum refers to the knowledge and understaning the students actually
walk away with at the end of the lesson. In a lesson plan, this is the part that asks,
"What did my students actually learn?" Received curriculum is measured by adequate and
tailored forms of assessment. - internal
curriculum could also be called "schema" or the prior knowledge of
students that combines with current lessons to create understanding. As a teacher, you
want to tap into students' existing internal curriculum as best as
possible because when new information is combined with prior knowledge, it is more
likely that students will retain and apply the new
information. - electronic
curriculum is simply using forms of electronics within lessons. Most
often this is going to revolve around the use of the internet. There are mixed opinions
about the use of electronic curriculum in the classroom. Arguably, some lessons utilize
the internet better than others. It cannot be ignored, however, that with our
increasingly electronic society, teachers do their students a disservice to leave
electronics completely out of their
curriculum.
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