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Curriculum Mapping

This document discusses curriculum mapping, which is a process that aligns written curriculum with instruction to ensure consistency. It involves creating a visual map that outlines learning outcomes, content, skills, assessments, and how students will progress. The map is used to guide instruction throughout the school year and ensure all teachers are aligned (horizontal alignment). It also ensures concepts are built over time from simple to complex (vertical alignment). The document provides two examples - a science map showing quarterly domains, and a map for an education degree showing how courses meet program outcomes. Curriculum mapping is an ongoing process that helps improve instruction and maintain quality.

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Curriculum Mapping

This document discusses curriculum mapping, which is a process that aligns written curriculum with instruction to ensure consistency. It involves creating a visual map that outlines learning outcomes, content, skills, assessments, and how students will progress. The map is used to guide instruction throughout the school year and ensure all teachers are aligned (horizontal alignment). It also ensures concepts are built over time from simple to complex (vertical alignment). The document provides two examples - a science map showing quarterly domains, and a map for an education degree showing how courses meet program outcomes. Curriculum mapping is an ongoing process that helps improve instruction and maintain quality.

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LESSON 3:

CURRICULUM MAPPING

 Is a process or procedure that follows curriculum designing


 It is done before curriculum implementation or the operationalization of the
written curriculum.
 This process was introduced by Heide Jacobs in 2004 in her book Getting
Results with Curriculum Mapping (ASCD, 2004).
 It is not a onetime initiative but a continuing action, which involves the
teacher and other stakeholders, who have common concerns.
 This approach is an on-going process or “work in progress”.
 Curriculum Mapping can be done by teachers alone, a group of teachers
teaching the same subject, the department, the whole school or district or the
whole educational system.
 Some Curricularists would describe Curriculum mapping as making a
MAP TO SUCCESS.

There are common questions asked by different stake holders, like teachers,
colleagues, parents, school officials, and the community as well. These questions
may include:

1. What do my students learn?


2. What do they study in the first quarter?
3. What are they studying in school throughout the year?
4. Do my co- workers who handle the same subject, cover the same content?
Achieve the same outcomes? Use similar strategies?
5. How do I help my students understand the connections between my
subjects within the year? Next year?
Curriculum mapping may be able to answer these questions above. Furthermore,
mapping will produce a curriculum map, which is a very functional tool in
Curriculum Development.
Curriculum mapping Process

Steps to follow:

Example A:

1. Make a matrix or spread sheet


2. Place a timeline that you need to cover. (one quarter, one semester, one year)
this should be dependent on time frame of a particular curriculum that was
written.
3. Enter the intended learning outcomes, skills needed to be taught or achieved
at the end of the teaching.
4. Enter in the same matrix the content areas/subjects areas to be covered.
5. Align the name each resource available such as textbooks, workbooks,
module next to subject areas.
6. Enter the teaching learning methods to be used to achieve the outcomes.
7. Align and enter the assessment procedure and tools to the intended learning
outcomes, content areas, and resources.
8. Circulate the map along all involved personal for their inputs.
9. Revise and refine map based on suggestions and distribute to all concerned.

Example b: for a degree program in college

1. Make a matrix or a spread sheet


2. Identify the degree or program outcomes (ex. BEED, OR BSED)
3. Identify the subjects or courses under the degree (GENed, PROFed,and
major of BSED)
4. List the subjects along the vertical cells of the matrix in a logical or
chronological order.
5. List the degrees program outcomes along the horizontal cell (use code as
PO1, PO2… if outcomes are too long to fit in the cell) PO means program
outcomes.
6. Cross the subject and the Outcome, and determine if such subject
accomplishes the outcomes as Learned, Performed, or a give opportunity.
Place the code in the corresponding cell.
7. Fill up the cells.
8. After accomplishing the map, use it as a guide for all teachers teaching the
course for students to complete the degree in four years.
CURRICULUM MAP

 Are visual timeless that outline desired learning outcomes to be


achieved, contents, skills, and values taught, instructional time,
assessment to be used, and the overall student movement towards the
attainment of the intended outcomes.
 A map is geared to a school calendar.
 Curriculum maps provide quality control of what are taught in
schools to maintain excellence, efficiency and effectiveness. It is
intended to improve instruction and maintain quality of education that
all stake holders need to be assured.

Horizontal alignment- Called sometimes as “Pacing Guide” will make all teachers,
teaching the same subject in a grade level follow the same timeline and
accomplishing the same learning outcomes.

Vertical alignment- will see to it that that concept development which may be in
hierarchy or in spinal form does not overlap but building from a simple to more
complicated concepts and skills.

A curriculum map is always a work of progress that enables the teacher or the
curriculum review team to create and recreate the curriculum. It provides good
information for modification of curriculum, changing of standards and
competencies in order to find ways to build connections in the elements of the
curricula.
SAMPLE A1- Science Curriculum Map showing the sequence of Domain for the
Year per Quarter

SAMPLE B- Curriculum Map for Bachelor of Elementary Education (Professional educational


Courses

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