What’s on the Three Curricula poster
A 4-row table: Curriculum · Where it lives · How to see it.
The gaps between these three explain most implementation failure.
- Intended — Documents — Read the plan
- Enacted — Lessons — Visit rooms
- Assessed — Tests — Read the papers
- Learned — Pupils — Ask the pupils
The learned curriculum is the only one that matters and the only one nobody writes down. Talking to pupils is the cheapest way to find it.
Questions about the Three Curricula poster
- What’s on the Three Curricula poster?
- A 4-row table: Curriculum · Where it lives · How to see it. The gaps between these three explain most implementation failure. Intended — Documents — Read the plan; Enacted — Lessons — Visit rooms; Assessed — Tests — Read the papers; Learned — Pupils — Ask the pupils. The learned curriculum is the only one that matters and the only one nobody writes down. Talking to pupils is the cheapest way to find it.
- Who is the Three Curricula poster for?
- Three Curricula belongs to the Education section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning curriculum & planning can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Three Curricula poster?
- Use it when a written curriculum looks strong and results do not follow. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Three Curricula belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Three Curricula?
- Backward Design, Bloom's Taxonomy and Cultural Capital sit alongside Three Curricula in the Education section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Backward DesignBloom's TaxonomyCultural Capital
- Is the Three Curricula poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Three Curricula downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Education section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Three Curricula poster print at?
- Three Curricula is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Three Curricula loses nothing.Printing guide
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