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Keys to Curriculum Mapping

Strategies and Tools to Make It Work
By: Susan Udelhofen

Foreword by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Build bridges to a brighter future when you plan with curriculum mapping!

How does curriculum mapping help build communication and trust within the school setting? Curriculum mapping provides more than a map of curriculum units and scheduling; it allows educators to align teaching, assessment and standards, schools, and meet assessment goals. This practical resource is packed with templates, flowcharts, tips and troubleshooting techniques for curriculum mapping. Udelhofen includes processes for:

  • Finding time for curriculum mapping
  • Sharing information with colleagues within the curriculum mapping framework
  • Adapting curriculum mapping to support other school-based programs
  • Utilizing curriculum mapping to implement federal and state initiatives

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781412909587
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2005
  • Page Count: 120
  • Publication date: March 10, 2005
Price: $31.95
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Description

Description

Build bridges to a brighter future when you plan with curriculum mapping!

What role does curriculum mapping play in addressing all content standards? How does it promote staff development? How can educators use curriculum mapping to match teaching with assessment? Proper preparation for the curriculum mapping process insures success and eventual expertise in this highly rewarding process. This practical resource provides the tools necessary for successful implementation and exciting results.

Keys to Curriculum Mapping is packed with templates, flowcharts, tips, and troubleshooting techniques for curriculum mapping. Drawing on her own experience as well as her collaboration with curriculum mapping expert Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Udelhofen includes processes for:

  • Finding time for curriculum mapping
  • Sharing information with colleagues within the curriculum mapping framework
  • Adapting curriculum mapping to support other school-based programs
  • Utilizing curriculum mapping to implement No Child Left Behind initiatives

Curriculum mapping provides more than a map of curriculum units, assessment formats and scheduling; it allows educators to build relationships, improve schools, and meet assessment goals.


Key features

  • Tied to other school improvement initiatives, including NCLB
  • Author's learning community expertise supports successful collaborative mapping
  • Connects curriculum to standards Provides templates and filled in map samples
  • Offers checklist for making decisions about mapping software
  • Explicit, step-by-step process supports leaders, teachers and teams
  • Case stories and educator quotes bring curriculum mapping to life
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Susan Udelhofen

Susan Udelhofen is a national staff development leader providing consulting services to school districts, education agencies, universities, and colleges. Her work concentrates primarily on issues and practices related to curriculum mapping, teacher mentoring, assessment, standards, and program evaluation. Her experience includes work at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction as a Goals 2000 consultant, and gifted and talented consultant. She has taught courses in teacher mentoring, assessment, reading methods, children’s literature, gifted and talented education, and also served as supervisor/instructor of preservice teachers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an experienced classroom teacher and holds current licensure.

She is the author of Keys to Curriculum Mapping (Corwin Press) and co-author of The Mentoring Year: A Step-by-Step Guide to Professional Development (Corwin Press) and The Teacher Journal: Reflections About Teaching and Learning (self-published). Her presentation experience includes appearances at the National Staff Development conference, Curriculum Mapping Institutes, New Teacher Center Symposium, American Educational Research Association, National Reading Association, National School Conference Institute, and Wisconsin Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

Udelhofen earned a doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction and an MS in Educational Psychology, both from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

About the author

Foreword

Introduction: A Curriculum Mapping Journey

1. Making the Case For Curriculum Mapping

2. Before You Begin: The Necessary Groundwork

3. The Curriculum Mapping Process: The Initial Cycle

4. Implementing the Action Plan and Beyond

5. Curriculum Mapping Software Decisions

Conclusion

Appendices

Index

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