Prepared by Joseph D. Cantara- Counsultant 1 Curriculum Mapping: A Road Map for The Common Core Standards: Session #2 The work of Heidi Hayes Jacobs: Presented

Prepared by Joseph D. Cantara-Counsultant

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Curriculum Mapping: A Road Map Curriculum Mapping: A Road Map for The Common Core Standards: for The Common Core Standards:

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Pre-Workshop Activity: Using the Map below, respond to the Questions!


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Give your responses to the following using N, S, E, & W:

• How would you recommend I get from the High School to The History Museum? From the Bus Station to the Cemetery? From Smith Park to the Zoo?

• What is the shortest way to State College from the Stadium?

• What is longest route to the Fire Station from the Zoo?


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• “…having standards is not enough to ensure improved student achievement. Unless teachers can translate the standards into actual classroom practice in terms of what and how they teach and how they assess student mastery, standards will have no effect on student learning”

Discuss within your group…


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A Model For Getting There:

Curriculum Mapping• “As any savvy curriculum administrator knows, there

may be a large gap between what’s specified on a curriculum guideline and what is actually being taught in classrooms. This gap poses a considerable challenge for educators who are trying to improve the curriculum. Unless they know what’s really being taught, they’re working in the dark. That’s where curriculum mapping can help”

• Mapping the Big Picture: Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs


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What are Curriculum Maps?

• Curriculum Mapping is a procedure for collecting and maintaining an operational data base of the curriculum in a school or district using the school calendar. It provides the basis for authentic examination


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• Sharpens and focuses the curriculum to ensure consistent core curriculum for all students

• Aligns with other school, state & national initiatives• Aligns all instructional components (content, skills,

assessments, activities and resources)• Aligns all reporting processes and instruments• Aligns all school improvement processes• Provides data to develop and support a vision• Can secure and support a lasting change

Curriculum Mapping: A procedure for collecting data about actual curriculum

using the school calendar as an organizer.


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Phase I: Laying the Foundation

• Getting the basics and developing a common understanding

• Why are we mapping?

• What is our vision?


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Phase 2: Launching the Process

• How are decisions made in our school?

• What do our maps look like?

• How do we assess and look at our maps?

• Developing consensus


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Phase 3:Sustaining and Integrating the Process

• Merging assessment data into maps

• Integrating Literacy Skills

• Developing a Plan for Implementation

• Making it work!


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Phase 4: What does the future look like?

What is the process for updating our maps for the future?


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A Common Language We Need to Learn &

Use Old Curriculum Terms New Terms-Curriculum

Mapping

1-Goals2-Lesson Plan3-Scope & Sequence: Resource Guide4-”Understands…..”5-Materials6-Objective7-Collaboration8-Test/Quiz

1-Essential Questions2-Activities3-Curriculum Map4-Higher Order Thinking Verbs (i.e.: Bloom’s Taxonomy)5-Resources6-Benchmark & Critical Skills7-Collaboration8-Assessment


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Activity #1: Examining Curriculum Maps

• Using the samples in your group, identify the consistent elements that occur on the maps, the types of information gleaned from the maps, and the quality of the elements developed .


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Elements of Curriculum Maps

• Essential Questions Overreaching questions that

provide focus for the unit and are aligned to the “Big Picture”, concepts or themes

-Encourage higher level thinking-Nurture making connections-Written in question form-Include fundamental, situational,

and authentic questions

• Concept/Content Key concepts, targeted

facts, and core content

-Start with Big Ideas or “Enduring Understandings

-Can be within discipline, inter-disciplinary or student centered

-Written in non form-targeted facts & information points


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SkillsWhat students need to know or be able to do in order to demonstrate mastery or understanding of the content.

-Begin with action verbs-Are specific, observable, & measureable-Include benchmark & critical skills-Reflect an expectation-Include integrated skills in the teaching and skills that support the teaching of the concept

AssessmentsEvidence of learning

-Are demonstrations of learning-Include integration of multiple skills-Are tangible products or observable performances-Include a variety of assessments-Written in noun form

(Elements continued)


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…and• Activities Practice opportunities to

master skills

-Hands on-Engaging-Incorporate different

learning styles-Included in lesson plans


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All of which should be aligned with the

Common Core State Standards


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Activity #2: So what needs to be taught in

ELA?• In your group,

develop a list of the topics/units of study for one grade in ELA or your discipline aligned with ELA for an entire school year.

• Prioritize your list.• Review your

colleagues responses: “World Café” review.


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Activity #3: Practice

• As a team, develop a Curriculum Map in ELA (Reading Key Point) or a Curriculum Map for your discipline aligned with ELA (Reading Key Point) for the month of September for a Grade.

• Use the Curriculum Mapping template suggested, or one of your own design containing the same, or additional elements (i.e.: Resources)

Curriculum Mapping Exercise For ELA

Unit: _______________ Time Frame:_______ Grade/Subject: ______

EssentialQuestions

Content Skills Activities

Assessments

CCSSStandards

Key Point: _______________ Strand(s): ___________________


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So what happens after our Curriculum Map is

written?• We need to

assess what we have written.

• But who does the assessing?

• What does the assessment tool look like?


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Mapping the Big Picture: Reading

Assignment• For our next meeting, please read Chapters 1 and 2 in

Mapping The Big Picture. Discuss the following:– Why do we need a “zoom” lens and a “wide-angle” lens

for curriculum mapping?– Discuss the aspects of the seven phases required:

• Collecting the Data• First Read Through• Mixed Group Review• Large Group Review• Determine the Points that Can be Revised Immediately• Determine the Points that Will Require Long-term Research &

Development• The Review Cycle Continues

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Prepared by Joseph D. Cantara- Counsultant 1 Curriculum Mapping: A Road Map for The Common Core Standards: Session #2 The work of Heidi Hayes Jacobs: Presented