EISNER: Three curricula all schools teach

     Eisner points out that values "are expressed in the kinds of illustrations that textbooks contain, in the language that is employed, and in emphasis that is given to the characters that constitute the stories that are read".  I find this interesting and I connect it to something I learned in psychology in terms of schemas.  Growing up, to me, curriculum meant the topics and content taught in classrooms.  New information is funneled into the minds of the students and that is the end of it.  However, in psychology class, I learned that there are two types of learning related to new information.  There is assimilation and accommodation.  New information either gets categorized into existing schema and possibly changes it or new schemas are created.

    The BC curriculum is split into different components that relate to each other.  The curriculum is based around the core competencies and describe the intellectual, personal, and social and emotional proficiencies students need for deeper learning.  Content is only one part of the curriculum and describes what students will know.  In any good learning environment, there will be more that just content learned.  Eisner's point about the values learned in schools can be seen in the big ideas that students will understand and the curriculum competencies that show what students will do and how they apply the skills learned.