TYPES OF CURRICULUM

OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of this presentation, participants
will be able to:

 Identify the 7 types of curriculum.

 Understand the importance of these

types in a curriculum.

 Develop understanding on each types

from examples.
7 types of Curriculum

 Recommended Curriculum
 Written Curriculum
 Taught Curriculum
 Supported Curriculum
 Assessed Curriculum
 Learned Curriculum
 Hidden Curriculum
Recommended Curriculum

 Presented by experts. Proposed or

implemented by scholars or
professional organizations.

Examples: K to 12 implementations, DepEd and

CHED implementations
Written Curriculum
(Overt/ Explicit Curriculum)
 Simply which is written as part of formal
instructions of schooling.
 May refer to lesson plan, syllabus or others
that support teaching that is overtly
chosen.
 Designed or reviewed by experts and
subject teachers.
Taught Curriculum

 Implementation of written curriculum.

 Whatever is taught, activities done in
classroom to implement learning.
 It is demonstrated and contains
different teaching and learning styles.

Examples: Teachers give lectures, group works,

laboratory experiments
Supported Curriculum

 Instructional materials that supports

and help the implementation of
curriculum that enables student to
become life long learners.

Examples: Textbooks, Internet, Applications,

Software presentations and files
Assessed Curriculum

 Of which is tested and evaluated in

order to know if students is
progressing.

Examples: Quizzes, Mid-term, Final-term

Learned Curriculum

 What students actually learned and that

is measured.
 Can be measured by learning outcomes
and is achieved by students from
learning objectives.

Examples: Results of Exam

Hidden Curriculum

 Side effect of an education

 Unwritten, unplanned, unintended
values a student learns at school.

Examples: Interactions with peers, teachers,

adults; exposures to different races and kinds of
people; behaviours of what is acceptable and
unacceptable
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FIN_
References:

 Alvior, Mary G.(Jan. 7, 2015). 7 school Curriculum Types and their

Classroom Implications.
http://simplyeducate.me/2015/01/07/seven-school-curriculum-
types-and-their-classroom-implications/

 The Second Principle, The work of Leslie Owen Wilson, Ed. D.

http://thesecondprinciple.com/instructional-design/types-of-
curriculum/

 http://Edglossay.org/hidden-curriculum/