This practical, step-by-step guide examines the stages of contemplating, planning, and implementing curriculum mapping initiatives that can improve student learning and create sustainable change.
A Guide to Curriculum Mapping: Planning, Implementing, and Sustaining the Process | Janet A. Hale (Author)| Corwin
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. How Do We Need to Think, Act, and Meet Differently?
Thinking Differently: Planned Versus Operational Curriculum, Acting Differently: Verification Versus Speculation, Meeting Differently: A Collegial Forum, Conclusion, Review Questions.
Chapter 2. What Are the Four Types of Curriculum Maps?
Four Types of Curriculum Maps, Curriculum Map Elements: An Overview, Conclusion, Review Questions.
Chapter 3. What Should We Consider Before Developing Curriculum Maps?
First Consideration: Exploring Personal and Collaborative Understanding of Curriculum Design, Second Consideration: The Ongoing Nature of Mapping Reviews, Third Consideration: A Mapping Sequence That Is Right for Your Learning Organization, Conclusion, Review Questions.
Chapter 4. What Elements Are Commonly Included in Curriculum Maps?
Curriculum Map Alignments and Elements, Writing the Elements, Conclusion, Review Questions, Descriptive or Not Descriptive? That Is the Question! (Math Focus), Descriptive or Not Descriptive? That Is the Question! (Language Arts Focus), Skill Versus Activity (Math Focus: Primary Grades), Skill Versus Activity (Various-Discipline Focus: Upper Grades), Assessment Versus Evaluation.
Chapter 5. What Should We Know Before Creating Diary Maps or Projected Maps?
Points to Ponder, Implementation Considerations, Conclusion, Sample Projected/Diary Maps, Review Questions, Conducting an Initial Read-Through: Facilitator Explanation and How-To Guide, Conducting an Initial Read-Through: Team Member Explanation and How-To Guide, Initial Read-Through: Collaborating to Create Quality Maps, Initial Read-Through Card Shuffle Debrief.
Chapter 6. What Should We Know Before Creating Consensus Maps and Essential Maps?
Map Type Differentiation, Developmental Considerations, Conclusion, Sample Consensus Maps and Essential Maps, Review Questions.
Chapter 7. How Should We Be Using Our Created Curriculum Maps?
Conducting Data-Driven Reviews, Investigating the Curriculum, Conclusion, Review Questions.
Chapter 8. What Data Is Often Incorporated When Refining Curriculum Maps?
Additional Map Data, Essential and Supporting Questions, Conclusion, Review Questions.
Chapter 9. How May Standards Influence Our Curriculum Design?
Standards and Curriculum, Breaking Apart Standards, Determining Power Standards, Conclusion, Review Questions.
Chapter 10. What Should We Consider Regarding Technology?
Commercial Online Mapping Systems, Mapping System Considerations, Conclusion, Review Questions.
Chapter 11. What Should We Focus on When Planning Our Implementation?
Systemic Change and Curriculum Mapping, Vision, Skills, Resources, Incentives, Action Plans, Conclusion, Review Task.
Chapter 12. What Roadblocks and Brick Walls May We Encounter Along the Way?
Practical Advice From Practitioners.
Glossary of Terms
Curriculum Mapping
Types of Maps
Map Elements
Alignments
Seven-Step Review Process
Common
Review Focuses
Curriculum Mapping Intra-Organizations
Miscellaneous Terms References
Index
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