Curriculum Mapping
A Step-by-Step Guide for Creating Curriculum Year Overviews
1st Edition
Published on 6. February 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
152 pages
978-1-4129-1559-5 (ISBN)
Description
"Offers a new approach and is a valuable addition to the body of literature on curriculum mapping."
-Constance Hill, Teacher Specialist, South Carolina Department of Education
"After reading Curriculum Mapping, I felt I had the knowledge and tools to show my teachers how to create their own personal 'curriculum guides' and have meaningful collaboration with other teachers to coordinate instruction both horizontally and vertically."
-Margo Gibson, Principal, Jemison High School, AL
"Easy to read and understand, and I feel I could begin this process right now."
-Jamie Jahnig, English Teacher, Central High School, Cheyenne, WY
Create a blueprint for your educational objectives!
Integrating curriculum with content standards and working with other educators to develop a teaching program makes instruction not only collaborative but also cohesive. Curriculum Mapping: A Step-By-Step Guide for Creating Curriculum Year Overviews offers teachers a customized, personalized process to prepare their curriculum while folding content into a larger curriculum map.
Kathy Tuchman Glass leads K-12 educators step-by-step through the process of developing a Curriculum Year Overview-or curriculum map-helping to establish meaningful connections between content areas while ensuring that all standards are met. This excellent resource helps teachers, curriculum directors, staff developers, and principals map out the school year with an articulate game plan to follow as they meticulously educate their students. In this book, readers will find:
A detailed definition and the purposes of a Curriculum Year Overview (CYO)
The step-by-step process for creating a personalized CYO
Several completely developed curriculum maps, blank templates, and suggestions for mapping specific content area skills from grade to grade
Discover how to build a strong foundation that promotes clear educational goals and results in a winning curriculum plan for your classroom and school!
-Constance Hill, Teacher Specialist, South Carolina Department of Education
"After reading Curriculum Mapping, I felt I had the knowledge and tools to show my teachers how to create their own personal 'curriculum guides' and have meaningful collaboration with other teachers to coordinate instruction both horizontally and vertically."
-Margo Gibson, Principal, Jemison High School, AL
"Easy to read and understand, and I feel I could begin this process right now."
-Jamie Jahnig, English Teacher, Central High School, Cheyenne, WY
Create a blueprint for your educational objectives!
Integrating curriculum with content standards and working with other educators to develop a teaching program makes instruction not only collaborative but also cohesive. Curriculum Mapping: A Step-By-Step Guide for Creating Curriculum Year Overviews offers teachers a customized, personalized process to prepare their curriculum while folding content into a larger curriculum map.
Kathy Tuchman Glass leads K-12 educators step-by-step through the process of developing a Curriculum Year Overview-or curriculum map-helping to establish meaningful connections between content areas while ensuring that all standards are met. This excellent resource helps teachers, curriculum directors, staff developers, and principals map out the school year with an articulate game plan to follow as they meticulously educate their students. In this book, readers will find:
A detailed definition and the purposes of a Curriculum Year Overview (CYO)
The step-by-step process for creating a personalized CYO
Several completely developed curriculum maps, blank templates, and suggestions for mapping specific content area skills from grade to grade
Discover how to build a strong foundation that promotes clear educational goals and results in a winning curriculum plan for your classroom and school!
Reviews / Votes
"This manuscript was easy to read and understand, and I feel like I could begin this process right now." -- Jamie Jahnig, English Teacher "This book is obviously the work of an author who has walked a faculty or two through this procedure." -- Rodney Rich, Principal "After reading this book, I felt that I had the knowledge and tools to show my teachers how they might create their own personal 'curriculum guides' and have meaningful collaboration with other teachers to coordinate instruction both horizontally and vertically." -- Margo Gibson, Principal "Offering a new approach, [this book] is a valuable addition to the body of literature on curriculum mapping." -- Constance Hill, Teacher Specialist "Glass offers a way of reducing huge lists of standards and integrating them to produce a yearlong plan that will actually get taught at the various grade levels. Worth a look!" -- Teacher Librarian, April 2007More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Publishing group
SAGE Publications Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
402 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4129-1559-5 (9781412915595)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Book
02/2007
1st Edition
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Person
Kathy Glass is a former teacher who consults and presents nationally with K-12 teachers and administrators at schools, districts, conferences, and county offices of education. She offers a blend of professional development (PD) topics to target audiences in areas affecting curriculum and instruction. To deliver customized PD, she assists educators with strategic planning to determine objectives. Then she tailors PD based on requested topics such as, but not limited to:
? highlights of the ELA Common Core Standards
? implementation of the ELA Common Core or other standards-based curriculum using a backward design approach
? essential understandings and guiding questions to frame curriculum and instruction
? differentiated tools and instructional strategies
? pre-, formative, summative, and self-assessments
? alignment of six-traits writing instruction and assessment to curriculum goals
? unit and yearlong curriculum maps
? text-dependent questions to facilitate close reading, and more.
To help educators directly translate what she presents into effective classroom practice that impacts students, Kathy can provide a variety of PD opportunities (e.g., presentations, lesson demonstrations and modeling, coaching, collaborative unit design, etc.).
She is the author of six books: Mapping Comprehensive Units to the English Language (ELA) Arts Common Core Standards, 6-12 (May, 2013); Mapping Comprehensive Units to the ELA Common Core Standards, K-5 ( (c) 2012); Lesson Design for Differentiated Instruction, Grades 4-9 ( (c)2009); Staff Development Guide for the Parallel Curriculum ( (c)2009); Curriculum Mapping: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Curriculum Year Overviews ( (c)2007); and Curriculum Design for Writing Instruction: Creating Standards-Based Lesson Plans and Rubrics ( (c)2005). In addition, Glass has served as a reader and reviewer for Reader's Handbook: A Student Guide for Reading and Learning (2002, Great Source Education Group) and as a contributing writer and consultant for the Heath Middle Level Literature series (1995, DC Heath and Co). Website: www.kathyglassconsulting.com; email: kathy@kathyglassconsulting.com
? highlights of the ELA Common Core Standards
? implementation of the ELA Common Core or other standards-based curriculum using a backward design approach
? essential understandings and guiding questions to frame curriculum and instruction
? differentiated tools and instructional strategies
? pre-, formative, summative, and self-assessments
? alignment of six-traits writing instruction and assessment to curriculum goals
? unit and yearlong curriculum maps
? text-dependent questions to facilitate close reading, and more.
To help educators directly translate what she presents into effective classroom practice that impacts students, Kathy can provide a variety of PD opportunities (e.g., presentations, lesson demonstrations and modeling, coaching, collaborative unit design, etc.).
She is the author of six books: Mapping Comprehensive Units to the English Language (ELA) Arts Common Core Standards, 6-12 (May, 2013); Mapping Comprehensive Units to the ELA Common Core Standards, K-5 ( (c) 2012); Lesson Design for Differentiated Instruction, Grades 4-9 ( (c)2009); Staff Development Guide for the Parallel Curriculum ( (c)2009); Curriculum Mapping: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Curriculum Year Overviews ( (c)2007); and Curriculum Design for Writing Instruction: Creating Standards-Based Lesson Plans and Rubrics ( (c)2005). In addition, Glass has served as a reader and reviewer for Reader's Handbook: A Student Guide for Reading and Learning (2002, Great Source Education Group) and as a contributing writer and consultant for the Heath Middle Level Literature series (1995, DC Heath and Co). Website: www.kathyglassconsulting.com; email: kathy@kathyglassconsulting.com
Content
Foreword by Bena Kallick
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Introduction
1. Definition, Purpose, and Observations
Curriculum Year Overview Definition
Purposes of a Curriculum Year Overview
Purpose Explanations
The Importance of Teacher Support
Possible Situations
2. The Process
Timing
Steps in the Process
3. Articulation from Grade to Grade
Grammar and Conventions Content Standards Continuum
Writing Types (Genres) Continuum
Continuums for Other Subject Areas
4. Curriculum Year Overview Samples
Primary
Upper Elementary
Middle School
High School
5. Computer Software and Continued Professional Success
Computer Software Programs
Continued Professional Success
Resources
Year-At-A-Glance Templates
Blank Templates for Detailed Month/Unit
References
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Introduction
1. Definition, Purpose, and Observations
Curriculum Year Overview Definition
Purposes of a Curriculum Year Overview
Purpose Explanations
The Importance of Teacher Support
Possible Situations
2. The Process
Timing
Steps in the Process
3. Articulation from Grade to Grade
Grammar and Conventions Content Standards Continuum
Writing Types (Genres) Continuum
Continuums for Other Subject Areas
4. Curriculum Year Overview Samples
Primary
Upper Elementary
Middle School
High School
5. Computer Software and Continued Professional Success
Computer Software Programs
Continued Professional Success
Resources
Year-At-A-Glance Templates
Blank Templates for Detailed Month/Unit
References
Index