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Curriculum Mapping

Purpose: “Curriculum mapping is a procedure for finding out what teachers actually do with their students through the course of a school calendar year. It‘s a way of collecting data based on the lessons, units, and annual curriculum plans that serve as a reality check. Rather than looking at what teachers are supposed to do with students, curriculum mapping reveals what they really do. But more than anything, a curriculum map is a communication tool between teacher and student and between teacher and teacher to look at a student’s experience over the long haul — not only through the course of one year but over the entire K-12 journey. By curriculum mapping what’s actually taught and when it’s taught, teachers produce data that they can use in conjunction with assessment data to make cumulative revisions in instruction.” (Heidi Hayes Jacobs)

“A curriculum map is a working document that illustrates exactly what is taking place in classrooms. Maps reveal what is being taught over the course of a year, within a unit of study, and even down to a specific lesson. Often a map for a lesson will include essential questions, the content that will be covered, knowledge, skills, and understandings students will demonstrate if they deeply understand the intended curriculum content.” (Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping, ASCD)

Educational Renaissance has included all the essential curriculum mapping features discussed above within their Lesson Plan Template (LPT) design. Teachers can easily indicate by simply checking a box or providing a short description or explanation that information needed to track when and how embedded curriculum standards are taught and assessed. Click here to view an Alaska LPT/Click here to view a Montana LPT. Educators can also track when LPT’s are created and taught by using the accompanying Curriculum Standards document — an excellent textbook congruency check and textbook adoption tool as well. Click here to view Curriculum Standards document.

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Facilitation Timeline: Using LPT’s for Curriculum Mapping, 1-2 Days