CURRICULUM MAPPING What is Mapping Curriculum Mapping is

CURRICULUM MAPPING

What is Mapping? • Curriculum Mapping is the documentation and discussion of what we teach. • It is a collaborative process that helps us understand teaching and learning throughout the school.

What is Mapping? - a technique for exploring elements of curriculum: § What is taught the primary § How instruction occurs n When instruction is delivered.

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.

Why Curriculum Mapping? § Mapping allows us to focus on fewer goals, and therefore, teach concepts in depth. § Mapping will eliminate wasted review and expand teaching time. § It vertically shows curriculum steps.

What information do we collect on the Map? • Content • Assessment • Skills/Thinking Processes

Design Elements • Choice of CONTENT: the essential concepts and topics covered. • Choice of THINKING PROCESSES: the precise technical and thinking skills. • Choice of ASSESSMENT: the product or performance to demonstrate learning.

Who are your Learners?

What is in the best interest of our specific clients? … the students in our setting: • Their age • Their stage of development • Their learning characteristics • Their communities • Their aspirations • Their needs

CURRICULUM MAP

CURRICULUM MAP

CURRICULUM MAP

PROCEDURES • PHASE 1: Data Collection • PHASE 2: First Read-through • PHASE 3: Small Mixed Group Review • PHASE 4: Large Group Comparisons • PHASE 5: Determine Immediate Revision Points • PHASE 6: Determine Points Requiring Some Research and Planning • PHASE 7: Plan for Next Review Cycle

PHASE 1: Data Collection • Collecting Content Data • Collecting Skill and Assessment

PHASE 2: First Read-Through • A review of all maps by all teachers. • Each teacher reads the entire school map as an editor and carries out the “tasks”.

PHASE 3: Mixed Small Group • Small mixed group reviews, in which groups of five to eight diverse faculty members share individual findings • The goal is to simply share individual findings.

PHASE 4: Large Group Review • Large group comparisons, in which all faculty members gather to examine the findings of the smaller groups. • Session is facilitated by principal and/or teacher leader.

PHASE 5: Determine areas for immediate revision • Identification of immediate revision points and creation of a timetable for resolution.

PHASE 6: Determining those areas requiring long term planning • Identification of points requiring additional research and planning, and a timetable for resolution of those points.

PHASE 7: The Cycle Continues • Planning for the next review cycle. • The district cabinet meets 3 times annually for review. • The site based council continues its review of the maps through the course of the year and into the next.

Maps are never finished; they are a work in progress! Documentation Revision Examination Documentation Revision

Prepared by: Ms. Anna Lou G. Ybañez