Developing Quality Maps: Nuts, Bolts, and Staff Development

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Developing Quality Maps Nuts, Bolts, and
Staff Development Dr. Ann Johnson
AJohnson199_at_MSN.com

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Overview of the Session

• Nuts and Bolts
• Types of Maps
• Quality Tips
• Steps to Consider
• Getting Started

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Curriculum Mapping

• Calendar-based curriculum mapping is a procedure
  for collecting and maintaining a database of the
  operational curriculum in a school and/or
  district.

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District Curriculum Map

• A COLLABORATIVE DOCUMENT THAT IDENTIFIES THE
  NONNEGOTIABLES FOR EACH COURSE/SUBJECT
• Core content
• Benchmark and critical skills
• Assessments

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District Math Map-Grade 5
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Individual Map

• Is a document that reflects the nonnegotiables
  and allows the teacher to customize instruction
  by adding additional skills, appropriate
  activities, assessments, and essential questions

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Individual Map

• 5th Grade Math One Month Map
• Teacher - Christensen

Content Computation and Estimation Meanings of
Operations Numbers, Properties and Representations
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• Activities
• Computation and Estimation
• Everyday Counts Calendar
• Fractions Bulls-Eye
• Cover-Up
• Meanings of Operations
• Grid paper addition.
• Grid paper multiplication
• Numbers, Properties and Representations
• Everyday Counts Calendar
• Number Line (Placing Fractions)
• Thats Me (Fractions)
• In and out of the circle
• Thats Me (Fractions, Decimals, Percents)
• Equivalent Memory

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Content

• THE WHAT THAT IS
• TO BE TAUGHT
• Key concept, BIG IDEA, or theme
• Discipline, interdisciplinary, or
  student-centered
• Written in noun form

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Middle School Example American Citizenship
Content

• Legislative Branch
• Powers of Legislative Branch
• Qualifications, Duties and Powers of the Members
  of the Legislative Branch
• Bill Into Law Process

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Elementary Example 1st Grade Math Content

• Addition
• Patterns
• Associative Principle
• Counting and Sets

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Skills

• WHAT STUDENTS NEED TO KNOW OR BE ABLE TO DO IN
  ORDER TO DEMONSTRATE MASTERY OR UNDERSTANDING OF
  THE CONTENT
• Are specific, observable and measurable
• Include benchmarks and critical skills from
  district consensus map

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Skills

• Include additional skills that support the
  content
• Reflect an expectation of higher levels of
  thinking (i.e. Blooms taxonomy)
• Include appropriate cross-curricular skills
• Begin with action verbs

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Elementary Example 1st Grade Math Skills

• EXPLAIN A COMPLEX PATTERN
• DISTINGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT KINDS OF
  PATTERNS
• MATCH ONE-TO-ONE CORRESPONDANCE
• DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF JOINING
  OBJECTS TO MAKE A LARGER GROUP

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Middle School Example American Citizenship Skills

• DEFINE THE POWERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
• DESCRIBE THE QUALIFICATIONS, DUTIES AND POWERS
  OF THE MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
• IDENTIFY THE STEPS USED IN PASSING A BILL INTO
  LAW

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Middle School Example American Citizenship
Skills (cont.)

• Analyze the effects of the Legislative Branch on
  citizens (critical skill)
• Develop an opinion using supporting details
  (reading skill)

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Quality Filters

• Do they start with action verbs?
• Are they precise?
• Do they include state standards?
• Do they reflect national standards?
• Are they rigorous?

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Assessments

• EVIDENCE OF LEARNING
• Are tangible products, projects, or
  observable performances
• Are demonstrations of learning

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Assessments

• Include multiple types of
• assessments to give a more
• complete picture of learning
• Written in noun form

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Middle School Example American Citizenship
Assessments

• Bill into Law Performance Task includes
• -Roles determined by qualifications, duties,
  and powers of the members
• -Organization includes House and Senate,
  committees, process for bill into law
• Persuasive Paper How is this law going to
  affect the students (the people)?
• Debate (Interdisciplinary project-Social
  Studies/Language Arts)
• -Why have a Congress? Is there a better
  way?

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Elementary Example 1st Grade Math Assessments

• . . . What might be an appropriate assessment
  for 1st grade students to show their
  understanding of addition?

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Quality Filters

• Are they culminating experiences?
• Do they include the integration of multiple
  skills?
• Do they allow students to show you what they
  know in different ways?

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Activities

• OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS
• TO PRACTICE SKILLS.
• Hands-on?
• Engaging?
• Incorporate different learning styles?

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Middle School Example American Citizenship
Activities

• Graphic organizer on qualifications, duties, and
  role of members and organization of the
  Legislative Branch
• Whos Most Powerful activity
• Graphic organizer on steps used to pass bill into
  law
• Reading Strategy Activity Knowledge Rating Scale

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Elementary Example 1st Grade Math Activities

• Use pattern blocks to build specific types of
  patterns
• Goes on a pattern hunt and looks for different
  types of patterns
• Uses counting jars
• Uses manipulatives to practice making groups

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Essential Questions

• Over-arching questions that provide
• focus and engage students
• Encourage higher-level thinking
• Help students make connections beyond content
  being studied
• Focus on So why is this important?

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Essential Questions

• What are possible essential questions for the
  first grade math example or the middle school
  American Citizenship example?

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