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Curriculum Mapping

A Step-by-Step Guide for Creating Curriculum Year Overviews

By: Kathy Tuchman Glass

Foreword by Bena Kallick

Create a blueprint for your educational objectives!

Kathy Tuchman Glass leads educators through the process of developing a Curriculum Year Overview, while establishing meaningful connections between content areas and standards. This excellent resource helps teachers, curriculum directors, staff developers, and principals map out the school year with an articulate game plan. 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

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Product Details

Grade Level: K-12
ISBN: 9781412915595
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2006
Page Count: 152
Publication date: December 07, 2006

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"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!

Key features

Several completely developed curriculum maps (all of which have been developed, refined, and used successfully in actual classrooms).
Blank curriculum mapping templates
Sample lesson and unit plans

Author(s)

Kathy Tuchman Glass

Consulting Description

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 (© 2012); Lesson Design for Differentiated Instruction, Grades 4-9 (©2009); Staff Development Guide for the Parallel Curriculum (©2009); Curriculum Mapping: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Curriculum Year Overviews (©2007); and Curriculum Design for Writing Instruction: Creating Standards-Based Lesson Plans and Rubrics (©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

Table of Contents

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

Reviews

"This manuscript was easy to read and understand, and I feel like I could begin this process right now."

Jamie Jahnig, English Teacher
Central High School, Cheyenne, WY

"This book is obviously the work of an author who has walked a faculty or two through this procedure."

Rodney Rich, Principal
Calabasas Middle School, Rio Rico, AZ

"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
Jemison High School, AL

"Offering a new approach, [this book] is a valuable addition to the body of literature on curriculum mapping."

Constance Hill, Teacher Specialist
South Carolina Department of Education

"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 2007

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