 Curriculum Mapping
Professional Development Opportunity for Teachers
September 9, 2010
Introduction to Curriculum Mapping at Office of Catholic Education
8:00 am - 2:30 pm
For teachers or administrators new to mapping, or for those
looking for a refresher on the basics!
Curriculum mapping is a procedure for collecting data about the actual curriculum in a school using the school calendar as an organizer. Curriculum mapping helps teachers keep track of what has actually been taught throughout an entire year. The map becomes a useful tool to assist in modifying and refining next year’s instruction.
Through curriculum mapping teachers are able to conceptualize integrated lessons and units to include one or more subject, grade level expectations, diocesan standards, and state standards and benchmarks. The process enables classroom teachers to make sense of the data collected from mapping their curriculum. For example, when teachers map their curriculum, they will be able to:
- Identify gaps in the lessons they taught
- Identify repetitions in their lessons, including those between grade levels.
- Identify potential areas for integration
- Match assessment with desired outcomes
- Review for timeliness to keep maps current
Curriculum mapping has benefits for the school and both individual teachers and groups of teachers. These benefits include the following.
- School – the curriculum map provides a big picture view of what is actually happening in every classroom at specific times of the year. Curriculum decisions become part of a comprehensive plan both teachers and administrators help create.
- Individual Teacher
- Can review timing, sequence, and level of instruction
- Use the documentation of successful instructional activities to create exemplary, integrated lessons
- Monitor the types of instructional methods used (ex, cooperative learning, direct instruction, etc.)
- Group of Teachers -- As a group of teachers at the same grade level or course, curriculum mapping helps teachers to:
- Share activities and assessments (both successful and unsuccessful)
- Collaborate and develop “team” feeling
- Guide new teachers in understanding and designing their curriculum map.
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