ABSTRACT
The curriculum is an important part of the context within which you work as a teacher. The planned or formal curriculum is the intended content of an educational programme set out in advance. We refer later to the informal and hidden curriculum. Like other aspects of the context of your work (the school buildings, say, or the administrative organization of the school), the curriculum forms a ‘frame’ to what you are doing even when you are not explicitly thinking about it. But often you find that you do refer to the curriculum, in your everyday conversations with colleagues, and less frequently perhaps in meetings with parents or in talking to pupils in a pastoral role.
