Curriculum Mapping

Educating for the Future

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Enduring Understandings

Curriculum Mapping

• Is a procedure for collecting and maintaining a database of the operational curriculum

• Provides a vehicle to authentically examine the operational curriculum and its relationship to other aspects of the system

• Is far more than the development of individual, school or system wide maps. It is the hub for all school improvement efforts

Source: The Curriculum Mapping Planner Jacobs and Johnson. ASCD 2009. (pg 13)

How does Curriculum Mapping impact school culture and vision?

What is required for a sustainable and effective curriculum mapping process?

How does Curriculum Mapping affect school wide curriculum process and practices?

Essential Questions

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Design

• Effective Professional Learning

Contexts

• Relevant and Embedded

Systemic

• A Comprehensive Approach

Continued Improvement

Source: Darling Hammond, Linda. (2010) The Flat World and Education: How America’s Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future Teachers. New York: College Press.

Essential Elements

• Purpose, Principles, Basic Essentials

• Rationale & Commitment

• Vision & Direction

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• Laying the Foundation

• Launching the Process

• Sustaining, Maintaining & Integrating the Process

• Advancing the Process

Essential Elements – Four Phases

Conserving the Past.Laying Lasting Foundations for the Future

• Actual• Detailed• Aligned

Record

Curriculum

• Timely• Assessment Focused• Mixed Groups

Embed

Review

• Purposeful Dialogue

• Consensus• Inform decision

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School Wide

ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS

• Purpose, Principles and Basic Essentials

• Rationale and Commitment

• Vision and Direction

Essential Elements - Curriculum

From • Wide ranging

• Cumbersome & Complex

• Saved in a myriad of ways

• In a variety of places

• Updated in many different ways

To• Evidence Based

• Actual V’s Intended

• Accessible & Accountable

• Aligns & Scaffolds

• Central & Transparent

• Cohesive, Collaborative & Connected

What is taught

What is assessed

What is reported

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• Purpose, Principles and Basic Essentials

• Rationale and Commitment

• Vision and Direction

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School Vision

21st Century Learners

Curriculum MappingAmplifying Learning in the 21st Century School

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Reviewing Requirements

• Sustainability, Structures, Processes, Systems

• Culture of Collaboration

• Alignment & Transparency

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Define Systems

Establish Structures

Honor Time

Identify Expectations – “End in Mind”

Mapping the the Journey

• Scheduling

– Daily, Annual, Long term

• Grouping

– Personnel, Students

• Learning Spaces

– Physical & Virtual

• Time

- Communication

- Individual & collaborative actions

- Data Analysis

- Review & Revision

- Professional Inquiry

Clarity & Cohesion Purpose & Function

Map Types

Essential

• Big Picture Requirements

Consensus

• School or System Wide• Department or Team Collaborative

Individual

• Teacher• Student

Review and Revise Current Systems

Reviewing Requirements

• Sustainability, Structures, Processes, Systems

• Culture of Collaboration

• Alignment & Transparency

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Suspend Judgment

Collaborative

Suspend all Judgement

Professional Inquiry

Shifts in Thinking

From• Unconnected thinking

• An environment of isolation

• Perceived reality

• Individual autonomy

To• Systems thinking

• Collegiality

• Information driven reality

• Collective autonomy

Source: Hall, Pete. Simeral Alisa.(2008) Building Teachers’ Capacity for Success. Alexandroa, VA:ASCD

A Culture of Conversations the is:

Data Driven Interconnected

Reviewing Requirements

• Sustainability, Structures, Processes, Systems

• Culture of Collaboration

• Alignment & Transparency

• What is taught?

• How it is taught?

• How learning is assessed and reported?

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Systems Thinking

All part of the whole

All members benefit

Reaching Consensus

Departments LevelIndividual

What curriculum conversations are taking

place in your school?

Establishing the Process

• Identify Quality Mapping Practices

• Clarifying Expectations & Desired Outcomes

• Identify Key Contributors

• Explore Related Formats, Tools and Strategies

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Establishing the Process – Quality Practice

Steps

• Research

• Identify an End in Mind

• Select facilitator

• Establish a core team

• Analayse Current situation

• Plan to build on strengths

• Plan to address gaps

• Establish a process and structure

• Embed process in school calendar

Considerations

• Organization

• Best fit - core team

• Systems for documenting maps

• Consistency of

- Processes

- Protocols

- Messaging

- Expectations

• Expected outcomes

• Implementation Strategies

• Documenting process, professional learning

conversations, student responses and evolving

outcomes

Initiate Map Review Process

Individual

Mixed Group

Whole Group

Seven Steps

Create or Renew

Map

Action Curriculum Map

Review Map Data

Analyse Review Outcomes

Feed forward

Plan for Action

Upgrade MapCut? Keep? Create?

Immediate orLong Term

Development

Suspend all Judgment

Classroom Implementation

Individual Common or Mixed Group

What does it tell us? What does this mean? What are we going to do with it?

Deep Professional

Inquiry

Purposeful Learning

Conversations

Establishing the Process

• Identify Quality Mapping Practices

• Clarifying Expectations & Desired Outcomes

• Identify Key Contributors

• Explore Related Formats, Tools and Strategies

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What does this mean?

Scope and Sequenced Data

Informed Decision Making

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Deep and Purposeful Learning Conversations

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A Common Language

Current school curriculum is the foundation on which we build.

Connected, Relevant & Engaging

Protocols Established & Followed

Within & Across Levels

Content, Skills & Assessment

Critical & Creative Thinking

Thinking about Learning

• Enhanced achievement is “the end in mind”

• The “end in mind” is best served by competent effective systems

• Do not impose learning. Start by “thinking about learning”

Source: Hall, Pete. Simeral Alisa.(2008) Building Teachers’ Capacity for Success. Alexandroa, VA:ASCD

Establishing the Process

• Identify Quality Mapping Practices

• Clarifying Expectations & Desired Outcomes

• Identify Key Contributors

• Explore Related Formats, Tools and Strategies

• Leadership

• Core team

• Teachers

• Students

• Community

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Key Considerations

• What impact will format have on school wide alignment and coherence?

• What formats, tools and strategies will best facilitate transparency?

• What role does technology have in the maintaining and sustaining the curriculum mapping process?

How do we ensure effective implementation?

Analyse Current Structures

Strengths Gaps Redundancies

Chic Foote

Christine Smith

Helix Consulting

+ 64 21832646

chic.foote@helix.ac.nz

christine.smith@helix.ac.nz