Once, curriculum was viewed as a set syllabus or body of knowledge that students learnt and retained. Curriculum content was often presented in static formats such as exercises in set text books, and was predetermined regardless of students' interests or prior knowledge. Effective teachers recognise that providing children with the means to access knowledge will engage those children in 'making sense' of their world. The process and content approach to learning has led teachers to favour inquiry learning.
Effective teachers provide students with a wide range of strategies to develop inquiry.
Michaelis claimed that these processes may be used in any subject, or with any knowledge area. Meerilinga Young Children's Foundation. Effective teachers recognise that they are teaching their students not only for the world today, but for the world they will face in their futures - the world that they will make their future. Strengthening the Early Years. Meerilinga Young Children's Foundation, Perth.