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Curriculum Mapping


Today’s Challenges

• Changing standards and assessments

• Rising accountability

• No Child Left Behind

• Increasing changes in demographics


What is Curriculum Mapping?

• A technique for exploring the primary elements of curriculum

• What is taught• How instruction

occurs• When instruction is

delivered

http://www.rubiconatlas.com/mapping.htm


Purposes

• Address the total education of students

• Create a "word snapshot"

• Capture the content, skills, and assessments taught or administered by every teacher

• Organize this information into an easily accessed visual that presents a timeline of instruction by teacher and course.

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/educationupclose.phtml/35


Who Creates Them?

• There are two groups of people crucial to the creation of a curriculum map:

1. the teachers who provide the information

2. the curriculum team who organize the information.


Mapping is a Tool for:

• Communications – Between teachers, students, administration,

parents, community

• Planning – Curriculum, assessment, reforms

• Resource allocation – Space, time, materials

• Staff development


Mapping is a Blueprint

• To align content, skills and assessments

• Calendar based

• Help discover gaps and repetitions

• Keeps everyone on the same page

• Identify areas for integration


Start by Looking at Samples of Student Work

• It produces a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of your program.


Keep the Focus on Results

• Focus on the measurable competences

• Approach skill development as multi-year endeavors– Don’t try to get everything done at once


“A Work in Progress”

• Additions of new teachers

• Alterations to the program of studies

• Changes in state standards


Concept Mapping


What is Concept Mapping?

• Concept mapping is a technique for representing knowledge in graphs.


Knowledge Graphs: Networks of Concepts

• Networks consist of nodes (points/vertices) and links (arcs/edges).

• Nodes represent concepts and links represent the relations between concepts.


Purposes

• Generate ideas

• Communicate complex ideas

• Aid learning by explicitly integrating new and old knowledge;


What is Mind Mapping®?

• A mind map consists of a central word or concept– around the central word you draw the 5 to 10

main ideas that relate to that word. – You then take each of those child words and

again draw the 5 to 10 main ideas that relate to each of those words


The Difference BetweenConcept Mapping & Mind Mapping?

• A mind map has only one main concept,

• While a concept map may have several.


Types of Concept Maps

1. Spider Concept Map

2. Hierarchy Concept Map

3. Flowchart Concept Map

4. Systems Concept Map


Spider Concept Map

Lesson Plan Template From Inspiration v. 6


Hierarchy Concept Map

Persuasive Essay Template From Inspiration v. 6


Systems Concept Map

Science Event Template From Inspiration v. 6


Flowchart Concept

Map

Lab Report Template From Inspiration v. 6


Use of Concept Maps in Teaching

1. Teaching a topic

2. Reinforce understanding

3. Check learning and identify misconception

4. Evaluation

http://www.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/~johnson/misconceptions/concept_map/cmapguid.html


Use of Concept Maps by Students

• Handy way to take notes during lecture. • Aids group brainstorming. • Providing graphics for your presentations

and term papers • Outline your term papers and

presentations. • Refine your creative and critical thinking

http://classes.aces.uiuc.edu/ACES100/Mind/CMap.html


Critical Questions

• What is the central word, concept, research question or problem around which to build the map?

• What are the concepts, items, descriptive words or telling questions that you can associate with the concept, topic, research question or problem?


Construction Steps

1. Select

2. Rank

3. Cluster

4. Arrange

5. Link and add proposition

http://www.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/~johnson/misconceptions/concept_map/cmapguid.html


Suggestions

• Start from the top and work your way down

• Use different colors and shapes

• Work from general to specific

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