Curriculum and Collection Mapping: Tools for Leadership and Connection
1. LIB 604 Libraries in the School
Curriculum
Spring 2013
Curriculum and Collection Mapping
Tools for Leadership and Connection
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What is Curriculum Mapping?
What Is It?
− Curriculum mapping is a process for
collecting and recording curriculum-related data that identifies
core skills and content taught, processes employed, and
assessments used for each subject area and grade level. The
completed curriculum map then becomes a tool that helps
teachers keep track of what has been taught and plan what will
be taught.
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From the inventor of the process
Heidi Hayes Jacobs - What is Curriculum Mapping
http://www.youtube.c
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View also The History
of Mapping
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Foci of curriculum mapping
Three C’s:
− Communication -- 21st Century curriculum maps are most often
developed and maintained using an Internet-based commercial
mapping system.
− Curricular Dialogue -- Teachers take part in collegial relationships
wherein they make data-based decisions about grade-level, cross-grade
level, disciplinary, and cross-disciplinary curricula and instructional
practices. Teachers become Teacher Leaders.
− Coherency -- A combination of 21st Century communication plus
curricular dialogue eventually equals curricular coherency.
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Phases of Curriculum Mapping
1. Laying the foundation
2. Launching the process
3. Maintaining, sustaining and
integrating
4. Advanced mapping tasks
− Somers Central School District
Curriculum Mapping Handbook
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Jacobs explains the 4 phases
Individual videos:
Phase I - Laying the
Foundation for
Curriculum Change
Phase II - Launching the
Process of Curriculum
Change
Phase III - Maintaining,
Sustaining and
Integrating
Phase IV - Advanced
Mapping Tasks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLWl7nYRY0w
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Contents of a curriculum map?
Curriculum maps should include:
− Content taught
− Life and thinking skills taught
− Assessment types, quality, and frequency
− Learning concepts that can be integrated with other
disciplines at your school
− Gaps or unnecessary repetitions in your teaching
− Strengths of your program
− Essential units and the questions that need to be
answered about each
− Standards (local, state, or national) that are taught
− Performance tasks
− Sufficient artifacts for student and teacher portfolios
• Adapted from Includes a sample map
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Another PowerPoint on curriculum mapping
http://www.sd104.s-
cook.k12.il.us/ppt/cm-
overview-bd.ppt
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Arguments for curriculum mapping
Decline of the print textbook
− The recent challenge from President Obama encouraging schools
to embrace digital learning points to the probable absence of a
print textbook in the future. Teachers will need to build their math
curriculum, science curriculum, language arts curriculum, and
social studies curriculum using various resources including print,
audio, video, and hands-on experiences. Building a curriculum
map is, basically, the only way teachers will be able to bring
together their instructional plan of what they teach, when they
teach it, and how (resources) they teach.
• Is Curriculum Mapping Still Relevant?
Written by Tamra Ranard on 22 July 2012
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Process of Collection Mapping
1. Data collection
− Count total number of materials in
collection
2. Compute number of items per student
3. Compute the age of the collection
− Can be done for each segment of the collection
• e. g. according to subject area or Dewey class
4. Divide the collection into manageable chunks and
periodically compare segments to the curriculum
Harbour, D. (2002, March/April).
Collection mapping.
Book Report, 6-10
http://murraylib604.org/CollMapHarbour.pdf
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Elements of a final collection map
1. Brief introduction
− Highlights of background and history of school and the
school’s library, plus statistics
2. Indicator of the size of the collection
3. Indicator of the quality of the collection
− Harbour, Collection mapping
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Two other
descriptions of
the process of
collection
mapping
http://www.ncwiseowl.org/
Impact/progAdmin.htm
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Phases of collection mapping
http://www.ncwiseowl.org/Impact/progAdmin.htm
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Latest from Loertscher on mapping
David V. Loertscher and Laura H.
Wimberley; Hi Willow Research and
Publishing; 2010; ISBN: 978-1-933170-43-
5; $33.00
More than a decade ago, David Loertscher
introduced the concept of collection
mapping in two different books mostly to
the audience of school librarians of the
time. . . . For this new revision of the
collection mapping idea, Laura
Wimberley has added her expertise and
together the authors have designed a book
that would be useful to all types of
libraries.
http://www.lmcsource.com/Catalog/
collectiondevelo.html
