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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Four Phases of Curriculum Mapping

Our Essential Questions:
  • How can we structure school decision making to support cumulative learning?
  • How should we design our curriculum to prepare learners for their future?
  • How does curriculum mapping serve as a HUB for all initiatives regarding teaching and learning?
 Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs takes a four-phased approach to curriculum mapping. See the resources below to learn more about each phase.

What Is Curriculum Mapping?
  • Calendar-based curriculum mapping is a procedure for collecting and maintaining a data base of the operational curriculum in a school and/or district.
  • It provides the basis for authentic examination of the data base.
 I. Laying the Foundation

Precise Skills might be: 
  • Observe and make notations of an event in the natural world or space
  • Collect and display data
  • Cite significant variables
  • Pose explanations
  • Predict future results 
Collections of Assessments:
  • Portfolios
  • Anthologies
  • Recordings of observable performances
Assessment  reveals:
Proficiency of targeted skill development
Knowledge and insight into content
  • Content -is the subject matter; key concepts; facts; topics; important information
  • Skills-are the targeted proficiencies; technical actions and strategies
  • Assessment -is the demonstration of learning; the products and performances used as evidence of skill development and content understanding

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