Exploratory Essay

Our current mass culture today is said to be “ethical and legally a complex domain, with important dilemmas continuing over issues such as positive discrimination, mandatory reporting of abuse and levels of teacher responsibility.” (Tait, 2013, p205) The main aims are ought to have a transparent system and curriculum with competent teachers, where we are able to express the equality within the schools and throughout the entire system, promoting a progressive approach; but keeping the traditional approaches that works; to encourage students to share their experiences, while at the same time contributing their values to society. It is important to have a transparent system as it allows fairness without the discrimination of ignoring the ones

those who do poorly, do so because they lack these fundamental qualities, and as a consequence, the blame for their failure is their own.” (Tait, 2013, p20) To overlook the students who are patiently seeking out for help for the benefit of the school introduces us to the ‘hidden curriculum.’ It can be briefly described as the unspoken messages and values, which the school delivers to the students. The factors of social class, interactions with students with special needs, and how a student’s identity is shaped depending on their values relate back to our identity, beliefs and aims of becoming a teacher and how we choose to handle the situation because it’s the “practice of providing different forms of education for children with different interest.” (Dewey 1997, p80) As teachers, to know the material is one thing, but it is the importance of conveying the information across to the students effectively is what makes you a, extraordinary teacher. Christopher Pyne once said, “The teacher who taught the student was the most particular outcome in the student learning.” Relating back to my own experiences at school, the teachers who showed they genuinely cared for my learning were the ones I would put the most effort into, where my results reflected my