Curriculum Mapping Initiative:

1. Curriculum Mapping Initiative: Promoting student achievement through an articulated, aligned curriculum framework West Jefferson Hills School District Monday, March 19, 2012

2. What are we doing? • Mapping the curriculum • Aligning curriculum content and courses vertically with PA Academic Standards and PSSA • Articulating content and courses horizontally across grade levels

3. Who is doing this? • All of us because we are the subject matter, content, course experts • All of us because we know instruction • All of us because we understand our students • All of us because we are WJHSD

4. Why are we doing this? • Promote increased student achievement • Define the science of teaching • Ensure consistency and continuity • Eliminate duplication of effort • Reduce overlap of topics, materials, resources • Create a legacy from experienced teachers • Establish a roadmap for new hires

5. How are we doing this? • Using the Understanding by Design (UbD), backwards design methodology • Incorporating: • Big Ideas • Essential Questions • Student Learning Objectives • Referencing the PA Standards Aligned System (SAS) www.pdesas.org

6. What does UbD look like at the Course level? • Course Description – from Program of Study or grade level conversations • Accommodations – District Boilerplate • Adaptations & Modifications – District Boilerplate • Enrichment & Extensions – District Boilerplate • Summative Evaluations – Click on interactive field at top of page • Formative Assessments – District Boilerplate • Benchmark Assessments – District Boilerplate • Diagnostic Assessments – District Boilerplate • Homework Guidelines – District Boilerplate • Course Textbook & Materials – based on Course, Subject, Grade Level

7. What does UbD look like at the Unit level? • Curriculum mapping process at the Unit level: • Big Ideas, Enduring Understandings • 3-5 per unit • www.pdesas.org offers examples • Write or edit them to make them real, understandable, authentic for your students. • Write them in sentences that really convey the concepts that you expect your students to retain after all the minutiae may be forgotten.

8. What does UbD look like at the Unit level? • Curriculum mapping process at the Unit level: • Essential Questions • 3-5 per Unit • www.pdesad.org offers examples • Write them so that they are meaningful to your students. • Write them as questions you would actually ask your students to initiate classroom discussion. Avoid jargon. Make them your own.

9. What does UbD look like at the Unit level? • Curriculum mapping process at the Unit level: • Student Learning Objectives • What do you expect students to know and be able to do with the content, subject matter of this Unit? • Write 3-5 student learning objectives for each Unit • Incorporate higher level thinking using Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy http://www.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm • Include higher level thinking using Webb’s Depth of Knowledge http://dese.mo.gov/divimprove/sia/msip/DOK_Chart.pdf • http://schools.nyc.gov/Academics/CommonCoreLibrary/Toolkit/Assessment/Rigor/Rigor+in+Maps.htm

10. What does UbD look like at the Unit level? • Curriculum mapping process at the Unit level: • Formative Assessments • Teachers use dozens of formative assessments every day • Formative assessments inFORM instruction • Teachers intuitively observe, assess and modify what they’re doing to ensure student engagement in learning • Click on interactive field at the top of the page to identify which formative assessments are used within each Unit

11. What does UbD look like at the Unit level? • Curriculum mapping process at the Unit level: • PA Academic Standards • All available in a drop-down menu • Select STATE Pennsylvania SAS Keystone Standards to access the Standards related to your content/subject area. These MUST be included in each Unit. • Include Anchors, Eligible Content and/or Professional Organization Standards if you wish, they are not required at this time

12. How will we make this a “living document” & not “binderware?” • Post it online as part of a Professional Learning, Curriculum Mapping Community • Make it accessible to all administrators & teachers now & parents/community in future • Promote ease of access for edits and revisions • Use OnHandSchools EdInsight Curriculum Manager • http://www.myedinsight.com/westjeffersonhills/login.aspx • Your User Name: By department • Your Password: By department

13. Now, let’s continue the process… • Log into http://www.myedinsight.com/westjeffersonhills/login.aspx • Enter User Name by department • Enter Password by department • Click on Create New Curriculum to begin a new curriculum map • Click on Search My District Maps to continue working on a curriculum map previously started