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Curriculum Mapping

Curriculum Mapping. ASD20’s Learning Services Department Curriculum & Instruction Team April 2013. Anticipated Outcomes for Today: Learn about the history and understand the benefits of curriculum mapping Experience multiple tools to help curriculum map

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Curriculum Mapping

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  1. Curriculum Mapping ASD20’s Learning Services Department Curriculum & Instruction Team April 2013

  2. Anticipated Outcomes for Today: • Learn about the history and understand the benefits of curriculum mapping • Experience multiple tools to help curriculum map • Participate during working time to begin the curriculum mapping process

  3. What is Curriculum Mapping? • Began in the 1980s • Current gurus are Janet Hale & Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs • CM in simple terms is: • The documentation and discussion of what teachers teach • A collaborative process that helps us understand teaching and learning

  4. Curriculum Mapping IS… • A living, breathing document • A process • Varied in form • A collaborative effort It’s ongoing Curriculum Mapping is NOT… “set in cement” Our state standards or CCSS documents A scope and sequence A syllabus or lesson plan A forgotten “list” of what we do or did Not static

  5. Why Curriculum Mapping? • It benefits ALL students. • Mapping is a COMMUNICATION tool. • Mapping is a PLANNING tool; it keeps us FOCUSED and targets necessary information. • Promotes PROFESSIONALISM and teaching creativeness.

  6. Gaps • Repetitions • Extra lessons • Supplements for BOEv • Specific parts of lessons that will address certain standards What might be revealed today…

  7. Benefits of Curriculum Mapping • Mapping replaces repeat teachings • Mapping allows us to focus on fewer goals, and therefore, teach concepts in depth • Mapping will eliminate wasted review and expand teaching time • Horizontal alignment assures that teachers on a team follow a similar timeline

  8. Curriculum Mapping: A Tool Belt for Teachers

  9. Curriculum Mapping

  10. FullTemplate: A Connection to our Colorado Academic Standards

  11. STOP!!!!

  12. “At a minimum, if mapping is used to simply find out what is really being taught in a building/classroom, staff members are better off than they were without maps.” Heidi Hayes-Jacobs

  13. Several Tools Available • CM Templates on the SBRC Wiki • Common Core State Standards Toolbox for math (suggested units) • Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project by CDE • Content Connection Tools by CDE • Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins & Jay McTighe

  14. 1. CM Templates on the SBRC Wiki

  15. Common Core State Standards Toolbox for math • Footnotes include references to Standards Progression Documents & PARCC Model Content Frameworks

  16. 3. Colorado’s District Sample Curriculum Project by CDE • Origin: Fall 2012 • Next Phase: instructional strategies, assessment options, accommodation/differentiation ideas, resource possibilities • Purpose: inclusive

  17. 4. Content Connections by CDE • A cross-content (multi-disciplinary) tool

  18. 5. Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins & Jay McTighe

  19. UbD Example from 2nd Grade CAS • Social Studies: Standard 3: Economics • 1. The scarcity of resources affects the choices of individuals and communities. • a. Explain scarcity (DOK 1) • b. Identify goods and services and recognize examples of each (DOK 1) • c. Give examples of choices people make when resources are scarce (DOK 1-2) • ORAL EXPRESSION: Standard 1 Oral Expression and Listening • 2. New information can be learned and better dialogue created by listening actively • Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.. • Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion). • WRITING & COMPOSITION: Standard 3 Writing and Composition2. Exploring the writing process helps to plan and draft a variety of simple informational texts • c. Organize informational texts using main ideas and specific supporting details • d. Organize ideas using a variety of pictures, graphic organizers or bulleted lists

  20. Time to Work!!

  21. Resources • Jacobs, H .H. (2004). Getting results with curriculum mapping. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. • Udelofen, S. (2005). Keys to curriculum mapping: strategies and tools to make it work. ThousandOaks, CA: Corwin Press.

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