By Heidi Hayes Jacobs
Curriculum maps are one of the easiest but foremost instruments for bettering educating and studying. simply because they require humans to attract specific connections among content material, talents, and review measures, those maps aid make sure that all elements of a lesson are aligned not just with one another, but in addition with mandated criteria and exams. In Getting effects with Curriculum Mapping, Heidi Hayes Jacobs and her coauthors supply quite a lot of views on the best way to get the main out of the curriculum mapping strategy in districts and colleges. as well as specific examples of maps from colleges around the usa, the authors supply concrete suggestion on such severe concerns as * getting ready educators to enforce mapping approaches, * utilizing software program to create distinct mapping databases, * Integrating decision-making buildings and employees improvement projects via mapping, * assisting tuition groups comply with new curriculum overview approaches, and * Making mapping a vital part of literacy education. academics, directors, employees builders, and policymakers alike will locate this ebook an important consultant to curriculum mapping and an essential source for spearheading tuition development efforts. Heidi Hayes Jacobs is the writer of Mapping the massive photo: Integrating Curriculum and evaluate, K-12 and Interdisciplinary Curriculum: layout and Implementation. She relies in Rye, long island.
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Train craftspeople to support specialized needs, and provide time for them to work with school-level teams. Skilled coaches at each school and at the district level are key for modeling and supporting the collegial dialogues that are necessary for addressing gaps and overlaps. 23 6. Develop explicit plans. Staff development should be relevant, timely, and sustained. Equip your staff development leaders at both the school and the district levels with extensive tools for supporting school teams. 7.
Several of the Ankeny group attended a session by Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs on curriculum mapping. They were so excited that, upon their return, they proposed starting a pilot in mapping at the secondary buildings. In the first year, we worked with 12 members of the secondary teaching and administrative staff who had attended the conference on curriculum mapping. This group became our leadership team for the curriculum mapping initiative. It held a professional development session for the teachers in the three buildings and asked them to map only their content.
If we want to see “world class” science emerge, then we must encourage flexibility in science investigations by independent students, as in New York State’s Science Research Program. Science departments that work with mapping tend to consider a set of more elaborate assessments to build consistent scientific competencies. Performing and Fine Arts Instruction in performing and fine arts reflects a dynamic range of approaches, creations, and student performances. By the 33 same token, there is a striking consistency in the precise and incremental way that students move through the years in developing their personal expertise.