Jean Anyon’s “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Social Work

Matthew Williams

English 1100

24 September 2015

Prof. Young

Jean Anyon’s “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Social Work

            Jean Anyon’s position on education is still learned in schools but not all of them.  Many education departments have been changing the way kids learn nowadays.  Every year they are changing the curriculum on subjects.  My educational experience was sometimes the same as Jean Anyon’s data in the essay and sometimes different.  I went to a private elementary school when I was young.  The school felt it was a like working class to middle class. Just in the middle of both of those types of schools with a hint of affluent profession school.  When we were taught lessons we would have to copy down the notes on the board.  After the lesson the teacher handed out a ditto on the lesson she taught.  Most of what I learned in elementary school was like this.  If a person did not understand a problem on the board, the student can ask questions to understand the problem.  When we reached 4^th and 5^th grade, we were allow to switch classrooms for different subjects once a day. This opportunity allow us to have a better feeling for middle school since we had to switch class every period.  I went to a public school for middle and high school.  The middle school was similar to the elementary school.  We had to copy down the notes the teacher told us to copy and if we wanted to take down our own notes we could do that.  I took a reading class during my three years there.  In 7^th and 8^th grade, we were told to write in a journal a couple days a week for a grade.  Sometimes the teacher would provide a writing prompt to answer or we could make up our own.  This was a good way to think about creative writing. When we had to go to the bathroom we would need to take a pass and in elementary school we did the same thing.  In high school learning was different.  In math class, if I did not understanding a problem. I could go up to the teacher and ask him what I did wrong.  In my junior year, History was taught differently than the previous years of the traditional teaching of history.  My teacher taught his students with flip learning.  He made of the concept and it was a better learning experience.  Flip learning was not having to take notes in class but having to watch a video of him talking about a lesson and taking notes on the video.  The next day in class the students would have to use the notes and concepts of the video lesson to complete a worksheet on the video lesson from last night.  If you don’t do the homework for class, your grade for the class will reflect on the amount of homework you have complete. Jean Anyon’s position does not holds merit today due to the changes in our curriculum.