Common Core StandardsElementary Level

Sharing Curriculum MapsJuly 31, 2012

May 2012

Request for 1 teacher per grade level

per school to meet together to work on a common curriculum

mapping document.

Teachers brought materials with them to help with the task.

All morning, the curriculum mapping teams looked at

resources, learned how to get logged into resource sites (which

will be helpful at schools tomorrow) and shared what they were learning with one another.

The next task would take most of the afternoon.

Remember, the mapping documents were not yet written.

Obviously, the goal was to have a curriculum map when the tasks

were complete.

Parameters:1. Create a document that will be made public, having a home on the new district webpage.2. Create a document (1 document) that will be easily comprehended by teachers, parents, community and students.

3. Design a format that is agreed upon by the entire group. One format that will span all elementary grade levels.4. Decide which content each person is going to work on, reading or math.

Discussions about what to put in the document varied from very

detailed statements full of vocabulary that could only be

deciphered by educators, to using the ‘I can’ statements teachers had

worked to create a year earlier.

Then teachers worked to create the mapping documents you will

be looking at today.

Expectations:All classrooms will be followingthe curriculum map per gradelevel.

Principals will follow monitorthe use of the curriculum map.

District administrators areexpected to visit schools/

classrooms to monitor use ofcurriculum maps.

The document does NOT tell you how to teach or assess. The

document DOES serve as a pacing guide, assuring that all students

have access and potential for mastery of all standards per grade

level.

Bring up the Curriculum Map for your grade level.

Guiding questions:

How can having this document available to you, parents, students,

and community be a benefit for you, the teacher?

How can you use the curriculum map contents as you begin to implement Standards Based Grading in your classroom?

District-wide grade level?

How can the curriculum mapping document be used to develop common assessments in your

grade level?

What about common grade level newsletters, sharing strategy,

material items?

What other ways can you come up with to use this document to help

you organize your work to replicate in following years?

Look at standards included in the grade level before your grade level

and after grade level…you will need to know the knowledge students are bringing to your

classroom and the level of understanding your students need for continued success the following

school year.

Other ideas?

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