Eisner on "Three curricula" taught by all schools.

While reading the article, my first stop was that giving rewards to the students can foster the willingness to perform better in their schools but on the other hand students, those who work for getting the reward don't perform well when they don't see any appreciation.  I have first-hand experience with this ideology. When I came to Canada in 2017, I started working as a math instructor at the Mathnasium of South Surrey( Math learning Centre), where students were getting punches in their rewards card for completing every page. I saw that the rewards acted as the driving force for them to complete more and more math pages and buy some big rewards from the rewards cabinet by redeeming their completed punched cards. On the other hand, there were some students who were not allured by these rewards and worked at their own pace. Therefore, I believe that giving rewards have their own pros and cons. Sometimes rewards can be beneficial to trigger someone towards taking the first initiative. On the other hand, rewards should not be the sole motivation to do something. The students should enjoy the process of accomplishing their goals.

Another thing that really speaks to me is the use of location and time. I remember in school time, subjects like Physical education, drawing, Fine Arts, Dance used to be the last periods of the school time table which subconsciously reinforced that the arts subjects were not as important as science and math. I truly feel that I am a deficit of those talents which I think I could have explored more if enough was devoted to those subjects. Therefore, I believe that enough time should be allotted to all the subjects so that students can explore their interests.

In addition to this, I was happy to realize that how one can even learn from the school time table. The time table teaches the students to cognitively flexible and be able to adapt to the new demands on the schedule. It helps them to understand the importance of punctuality.  Moreover, we as teachers should acknowledge the importance of the implicit curriculum which teaches the student about the social and moral values which will help to become a good human being which I believe is above all the explicit curricula.