Hidden curriculum refers to the unwritten, unofficial, and often unintended lessons, values, and perspectives that students learn in school. While the formal curriculum consists of the courses, lessons, and learning activities students participate in, as well as the knowledge and skills educators intentionally teach to students, the hidden curriculum consists of the unspoken or implicit academic, social, and cultural messages that are communicated to students while they are in school. It is important to teach multiple perspectives of a historical event in order to respect all cultures, teach the whole story, and ensure that you are teaching unbiased factual information.

In order to teach multiple perspectives, include all voices and research the topic for facts. Instead of just focusing on the dominant groups and communities look at the people and groups that are not normally heard about. A reason to do this is that it increases diversity and cultural awareness for groups of people and communities that have been ignored in traditional historical narratives.

When researching missing voices use multiple resources and educational libraries. Use books and resources that provide more than one perspective. You can also use videos or presentations that have been made. Of course you can use the internet but avoid sites like Wikipedia and biased websites. 

Our advice for for future teachers about teaching social studies is to make social studies engaging and fun. Have students participate in history and do history not just read and fill out a worksheet. To make social studies engaging teach students what they want to learn and what they are passionate about. Use videos, charts, photos, art, flipbooks, and artifacts to teach students history. When it comes to what you teach you have to teach the standards but also teach what the students what to learn about and teach the facts and all perspectives not just the traditional narratives.