Presentation Created By
Janet Hale, Curriculum Mapping Consultant
www.CurriculumMapping101.com
All that is shared in this slideshow is based on
the work of Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs…
Mapping the Big Picture
1997, ASCD
Getting Results with
Curriculum Mapping
2004, ASCD
Active Literacy
Across the Curriculum
2006, Eye On Education
and …
Keys to Curriculum
Mapping: Strategies
and Tools to Make It
Work
Susan Udelhofen
2005, Corwin Press
A Guide To
Curriculum Mapping:
Planning,
Implementing, and
Sustaining the
Process
Janet Hale
December, 2007
Corwin Press
1. Curriculum mapping is a multifaceted,
ongoing process designed to improve student
learning.
2. All curricular decisions are data-driven and
in the students' best interest.
3. Curriculum maps represent both the planned
and operational learning.
4. Curriculum maps are created and accessible
using 21st century technology.
5. Teachers are leaders in curriculum design and
curricular decision-making processes.
6. Administrators encourage and support teacherleader environments.
7. Curriculum reviews are conducted on an
ongoing and regular basis.
8. Collaborative inquiry and dialogue are based on
curriculum maps and other data sources.
9. Action plans aid in designing, revising, and
refining maps.
10. Curriculum mapping intra-organizations
facilitate sustainability.
Hale, J. (2007). A guide to curriculum mapping: Planning, implementing,
and sustaining the process. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Curriculum mapping is a
calendar-based process
for collecting and maintaining an
ongoing database
of the operational
and planned curriculum
in a learning organization.
Curriculum mapping encourages
teachers to be curriculum designers via
authentic examination,
collaborative/collegial conversation,
and student-centered decision making.
Two CM
Guidelines
The Empty Chair
Whenever teams or entire staffs
meet in person, there is literally or
figuratively an empty chair placed
front-and-center in the room. This
chair represents all of the students
in a school or a district.
Usually, the student in the chair
is referred to as “Chris.”
Data-driven Reviews and Collaborations
If it is in Chris’ best interest to
change, modify, stop, start, or maintain
a practice or other school/District-related issue,
there must be data-based proof.
Maps are a form of data!
Why Map?
State/Other
Standards
Types of Maps
(Monthly)
Essential
Consensus
Projected
Diary
Proficiency
Targets
ON-GOING
PROCESS
(Daily)
Lesson Plans
Reality
Mapping is a continuous cycle of reviewing what has
actually happened (Diary Maps) compared and contrasted
with curriculum planning (other Types of Maps)
through ongoing curricular dialogue.
Four Types of
Curriculum Maps
• Diary Map
• Projected Map
• Consensus Map
• Essential Map
The “Essence” of
Curriculum Mapping
I am a datacollection
portal…
Diary Map
(Recorded Monthly)
• A personalized* map
recorded by an individual
person that contains data
reflecting what REALLY
took place during a month
of learning and instruction
• Commonly due by the
“7th” of the next month
*There is no such thing as
“team” diary mapping.
The
Projected Map
Nuts N’ • A map that has been created by an
individual person for a discipline or
Bolts
course before the actual yearly testing
of
out of its “planned itinerary”
Mapping
Language
These two types of maps are, in actually, the same map.
Differentiation is based on the current month of the year.
Consensus Map (An Entire School Year Of Months)
• A map designed by two or more educators
wherein all designers have come to
agreement on the course learning based on
standards and serves as the plannedlearning map wherein all who teach the
course use the Consensus Map as a
foundation* for his or her course learning
and instruction
*Flexibility in additional learning, length of
learning, assessments, resources, and how
learning is executed is up to the discretion of each
teacher teaching the course and is reflected in his
or her Projected Map/Diary Map.
SCHOOL-SITE “LEVEL” MAPS
The
Essential Map
(An Entire School Year Of Learning
Nuts N’
Usually Recorded By Grading Periods)
Bolts
• A map created via a team of
of
educators (Task Force) that is
representative of District learning
Mapping
The Essential Map
Language expectations.*
serves as the base-instruction map
wherein all who teach the course
use the map to plan learning and
create collaborative, Consensus
Maps and/or personal Projected
Maps
*There needs to two or more “like”
schools or courses offered to warrant
creation and use Essential Maps.
DISTRICT “LEVEL” MAPS
“When we travel, road maps become
more distinctive the closer we get to
the ‘main destination’.”
Quote By:
Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs
Keynote Presentation,
2005 National Curriculum
Mapping Institute.
Bergenfield
Base DETAIL
Consensus
Map
Grade 1
Math
Diary Map
Janet
Biggins
Grade 1
Math
Janet Biggins
Nicki McGrane
Susan McGuire
School District
Grade 1
Essential
Maps
Lincoln
Elementary
School
More DETAIL
Most (Monthly) DETAIL
Much More Specific
Day By Day DETAIL
Weekly/Daily
Lesson Plans
Diary
Map
Janet
Biggins
Grade 1
Math
=
A Month’s
Worth Of
Learning
We will all become “Stepford Teachers?”
No. Mapping focuses on
Fair Access and Equitable Education
for ALL students…
Mapping Establishes
Consistency (Essential/Consensus Maps)
and Flexibility (Projected/Diary Maps)
What Curriculum Mapping is NOT…
“Set in Cement”
• State Standards
Documents
• Curriculum Guides
• Scope and Sequences
• A Syllabus
• A Forgotten “List” Of
What We Do Or Did
Curriculum mapping is ongoing collaboration
and reflection on the realities of what is
planned and happening in each classroom-each month and each year!
“Maps equal data …
Data equals facts and
figures … Facts and
figures show trends …
And with this
knowledge, we can give
‘all the above’ meaning
by looking at the trends
and comparing it to
other data bases.”
Curriculum Mapping
Conference, 2003
Curriculum mapping is
NOT STATIC … IT’S ONGOING!
Curriculum maps serve as the living, breathing,
ever-changing, archived and current history
of your learning organization!
Curriculum = Curriculum Mapping =
A Path Run In Systemic Second-Order
Change
Small Steps
It is all about
“doing business”
differently.
Please realize up front
that teachers and
administrators will be
learners for some time.
As with all learners, new
knowledge is best presented
in small steps…
Sustained,
systemic
change
takes
3 to 5
years
to fully
implement!
Curriculum
Mapping is
an ongoing
process,
And
remember…
not a
program!
Curriculum mapping is not something
you add to what you already do. It is a
replacement model that means learning
a new way of conducting the professional
business of teachers improving student
learning by designing rigorous, vertically
aligned curriculum.
The beauty of starting off and
moving forward slow, steady,
and in small steps is that
there will never be an epilogue.
(Jacobs, Getting Results
with Curriculum Mapping,
2004).