Mapping the Big Picture

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Mapping the Big Picture

• Escambia High School
• Escambia County School District
• August 10, 2007

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Major Concerns for Teachers

• FCAT preparation
• FCIM
• Documentation
• Learning Gains

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Bridge to Success
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Curriculum Mapping
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What is possible with the information on the maps?
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What would you be able to do if you had this
information?
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What would you be able to do if you had this
information?

• Identify benchmarks that were taught
• Adjust teaching of benchmarks
• Identify weak areas
• Identify missing/overlooked benchmarks
• Adjust master schedule for next year
• Adjust FCIM focus

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Lesson Plans vs. Curriculum Maps
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You cant build a reputation on what you're going
to do. Henry Ford
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Lesson Plans vs. Curriculum Maps
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How would your school be different if you had
this information available now?
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What Is A Curriculum Map?

• A curriculum map is a calendar-based record of
  what really happens in a classroom it is not a
  curriculum guide or educational philosophy
• Maps are used for communication, short and
  long-term planning, and as a teacher training tool

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TIME

• If you dont have time
• To do it right
• When do you have time
• To do it over?
• Roger Taylor, 1996

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Life is ten percent what happens to you and
ninety percent how you respond to it. Lou Holtz
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Beginning Steps
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Beginning Steps

• Diary Mapping

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Second Step Consensus Maps
Review! Review! Review!
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Review and Revise!
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How Do You Map Curriculum?

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What Information Do We Collect On The Map?

• CONTENT
• ASSESSMENT
• SKILLS
• Essential Questions

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Escambia County School District Website
www.escambia.k12.fl.us

• Log on to the district website
• Select the icon for Departments and Resources,
  which is located on the left side of the home
  page
• Select Staff Development
• Select Download Forms
• Scroll through the forms listed, and select
  Curriculum Mapping Templates.

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Performance Pathways
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Mapping The Content

• What are you teaching each month?
• List the content, using nouns a topic, a theme,
  a problem, an issue or works.

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Important Points

• Enter only what you have taught.
• Honesty is important.
• Enter your data alone.

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Mapping Skills

• List after content.
• Use action verbs.
• Focus on student skills not teacher activities.

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Skills vs. Activities

• Calculate the area, volume and mass of an object.
• Determine the cause of the Protestant Reformation.

• Answer the questions at the end of the chapter.
• Do the even problems in the addition of
  fractions.

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Use Blooms Taxonomy

• Use the verbs of Blooms to describe student
  skills.
• Match level of skills to FCAT items.
• Work from lower level skills to higher order
  thinking skills.

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Skills Are Displayed On The Map

• Precise skills can be
  
• Assessed
• Observed
• Described in specific terms

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Mapping Assessments

• What will the student perform or produce?
• Project Chapter test Performance Test
• Connect assessments with skills
• Use nouns or noun phrases

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Assessment

• Assessment demonstrates learning.
• Assessment gives evidence of skill and process
  development.
• Do you assess at the consumer level or the
  producer level?

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Consumer vs Producer Levels

• Consumer Level
• Interview for info
• Read for info
• Make note cards
• Label a map.

• Producer Level
• Analyze validity
• Determine causes
• Critique a work
• Write a position
• Discuss an issue.

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Assessment Examples

• Journal Entry A Day in the Life of a Homeless
  Person
• Quiz on the various forms of art

• Quizzes
• Revisions
• Lab assignments
• Journals
• Worksheets
• Oral presentations
• Chapter tests
• Literature discussions
• Demonstrations

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Assessments Are The Major Products And
Performances

• Assessment is observable evidence of
• 1)Tangible Products
• 2)Observable Performances

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Critique Your Assessments

• Have you assessed at the consumer or producer
  level?
• Have you used age-appropriate assessments?
• Wheres the rigor?

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Essential Questions
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Essential Questions balance
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An Essential Question Is The Heart Of The
Curriculum

• If your class is about to start a study of the
  U.S. Constitution for four weeks, as the
  curriculum writer you need to ask. What are the
  concepts that my students should investigate
  about the constitution in four weeks? What should
  they remember and reflect on a year from now?

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Essential Questions

• What do you want students to remember a year
  from now?

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Essential Questions

• What questions will open the door to
  understanding and facilitate the understanding
  to stick?

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My Essential Questions are

• What is an Essential Question?
• How do you write Essential Questions?
• What is your schools plan for Curriculum Mapping?

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Essential questions are productive for children

• When a teacher or group of teachers selects a
  question to frame and guide a curricula design,
  it is a declaration of intent. This is our focus
  for learning.
• Essential questions are an exceptional tool for
  clearly and precisely communicating the pivotal
  points of the curriculum
• They act as mental velcro

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What you design is what you get!

• You are probing with your students
• Traditional Question What are the three branches
  of government as organized in the constitution?
• Essential Question How is the constitution the
  backbone structure of America?

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When Designing The Curriculum
THINK
T H I N K

• What is the purpose of the unit?
• Given the amount of time we have to work on a
  topic What is essential for us to examine,
  explore, learn?
• If you use essential questions the retention rate
  for kids doubles. Kids read words unless they
  know the essence of what they are looking for.
• What you design is what you get?

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What you design is what you get!

• EQs spark new questions.
• EQs should recur throughout the course.
• EQs are interesting and provide an avenue for
  alternative views.

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What you design is what you get!

• Behind any EQ a student needs to provide
  justification. The best EQs are arguable.
• EQs transfer an idea from one setting to other
  settings.

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Example In Practice

• An assignment could be
• As you read Chapter 2, determine what you think
  were the major contributions of Egyptians?

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Essential Questions as an Organizer
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About Essential Questions

• A teacher structures a unit around 2-5 essential
  questions.
• The questions are the scope and sequence of the
  unit.
• They go to the heart of the subjects history,
  arguments, and insights.
• They must engage and interest the learner.

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Examples of Essential Questions

• How and why do things in nature fly?
• How does flight impact humans?
• What is snow?
• How does snow affect people?
• How will I ever learn to multiply?
• Where will I ever use multiplication?

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Essential Questions

• What is the difference between a scientific fact,
  a scientific theory, and a strong opinion?
• What should we eat and why should we eat it?
• To what extent is DNA destiny?

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Essential Questions

• How do we hit with greatest power without losing
  control?
• How important is follow-through for distance and
  speed?
• What kind of practice makes perfect?

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Essential Questions

• What ideas can we express through dance?
• In what ways to artists express what they think
  and feel?
• Why should readers regularly monitor their
  comprehension?

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Mathematics

• Compare examples () and non-examples (-) of a
  concept.
• Identify the distinguishing characteristics of
  each.
• Test your theory against new cases.
• Refine your concept definition.
• Contrast fractional numbers with decimal numbers.

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Mathematics Predictive Statistics

• Determine the line of best fit for data to
  interpret patterns and make predictions.
• EQ Can you predict the future? What will
  happen next? How sure are you?

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Mathematics

• Whats new and whats old? Have we run across
  this idea before?
• Is everything quantifiable? Why or Why not?
• What is the value of place value?
• What are possible sources of measurement error in
  this experiment/problem?

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Mathematics Systems of Equations

• Whats new and whats old? Have we run across
  this idea before?
• Which method would be the most efficient for
  solving the given system? Justify your decision.

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For Example . . .

• Everyday Physics Transportation Safety
• How can cars, boats, and airplanes become safer
  for passengers?
• How can principles of force and motion help
  driver effectiveness and safety?
• Are safety and speed compatible?

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For Example . . .

• Intelligence
• What is intelligence?
• How has intelligence evolved?
• How is intelligence measured?
• Is intelligence solely a human phenomenon?
• How will intelligence be altered?

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ANCIENT EGYPT Land of the Pharaohs

• Why Egypt?
• What were major contributions of the Ancient
  Egyptians?
• What is their legacy?

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Writing Essential Questions

• Pick a topic for your subject
• Be creative
• Write 2 5 questions

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Writing Essential QuestionsResources

• www.jmctighe.com go to resources UBD related
  websites stage 1 EQs
• http//www.santarosa.k12.fl.us/odyssey/
• Santa Rosa County
• http//www.myprojectpages.com/support/ess_questpop
  up.htm
• http//spotsylvania.k12.va.us/cmaps
• http//www.ascd.org
• http//www.mohanasen.org

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District Initiative

• The expectation is that every school will be
  involved in curriculum mapping.
• Curriculum mapping is to be supported by every
  department.
• Curriculum Mapping is part of the continuous
  improvement process as we streamline what we are
  doing.

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Why?

• Every student gets the best possible education
  from grades K-12, guaranteed!