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In The Privileged Poor, the sociologist Anthony Abraham Jack shares that because components of academic life like office hours aren’t often defined, many first-generation students don’t know what they are or how to make the most of them. The norms for office hours are part of the hidden curriculum, “the unwritten rules and unspoken expectations” of higher education. While some of our students come into our classrooms with a clear sense of these rules, they are unfamiliar to many others, including first-generation students who can’t lean on parental advice and neurodivergent students who are less likely to pick up on unspoken environmental cues. Unveiling the hidden curriculum in the courses you teach is one way to support the learning of all of your students. Join us as we think together about practices that we can use to reveal and revise the hidden curriculum, including small scale adjustments you can fit in the first days of the semester. 

 

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