Formative Assessment on Hidden Curriculum

Hidden Curriculum (HC) is the implicit, ill-defined, unwritten influence on student learning that is embedded in the actual educational experience. HC contrasts and usually conflicts the documented, explicitly written formal curriculum (FC). HC is the ground reality...

When a class test alienated me! (F)

The practice of peer-teaching on various aspects is a welcome event for me. It allows me to be a student, one who can sit there absorbing the knowledge and realising how I use it in my immediate time frame. I dread facilitating such events as my colleagues are...

Hidden Curriculum GoKL

Go KL is the KL’s iconic free bus service. Currently it serves 11 different routes which intersects so that a patron can visit a lot of places in KL. The patronage is huge and it is such a clean and beautiful sight in the wonderful bandar (city). This bus has...

Hidden Curriculum – Empowering students

“Why is BDS so stressful?” This was a question asked in my workshop on Stress management for Year 3 students. I explained that BDS is not stressful. It left me wondering, if BDS is not stressful, why is the workshop on stress management being attended by the whole...

Hidden Curriculum – Oppressive or Liberating (F S)

“Liberation is the purpose of Education”. “Education brings conformity or freedom”. The learner chooses. I was envious about Rex, a young lecturer in our school. Everyone likes Rex, especially the students. I overheard a particular mentoring session in the clinic Rex...