Chapter Four: All 4 Types Of Curriculum, Definitions, And Examples Of

Question 1

What are the four types of curriculum ?

Answer 1

• Explicit
• Implicit
• Null
• Extracurricular

Question 2

What is Explicit Curriculum?

Answer 2

The curriculum that has been intentionally designed, filed tested by educators and distributed publicly. The explicit curriculum can be discussed in terms of time on task, contact hours and high school credit courses. It can be qualified in terms of specific observable, measurable learning objectives.

Question 3

What is implicit curriculum or the hidden curriculum?

Answer 3

The hidden curriculum lessons that emerge from culture of the social and behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs that have been defined by the district.

An example would be character education.

When young children explain the expectations for a student in school it will likely be the implicit curriculum that they discuss.

Question 4

What is the null curriculum?

Answer 4

The options students are not afforded the perspectives they may never know about much less be able to use the decision to exclude topics or subjects from a curriculum nonetheless affects the curriculum, but it’s very omission,

Evolution and Sex Education are frequent examples.

Question 5

What is the extracurricular curriculum? 

Answer 5

All of the school sponsored programs

examples are athletics and band

that are intended to supplement the academic aspect of the school experience.