My teaching would be the context, to teach a lesson there has to be a meaning and a purpose for it. My curricular orientation is that schools provide a learning environment for student where they can expand their knowledge. Right not the school I will be working at in a low performing school. I would say that the curricular orientation for the school is academics. The teachers are having a hard time getting students to excel in reading, mathematics and writing this is due to the strong cultural background that the students come from.
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