Foundational+Questions

1. Glossary of Terms

**Curriculum Mapping**- Calandar-based curriculum mapping is a procedure for collecting and maintaining an operational data base of the curriculum in a **school** or district. Curriculum mapping provides the basis for **authentic** examiniation.

Two types of maps:

Individual Classroom- This map conveys the operational curriculum based on the actual school calandar. It is a clear and useful summary that can easily be understood and read by colleagues within and between buildings in a school or district.

Consensus Map- These maps are less detailed than the classroom teacher's map because their function is not to reflect the operational curriculum but rather to project agreed-upon areas for focus for a school or district. Through the consensus review process, not only are the requisite content, skills and essential questions for all students identified but also those areas where flexibility is appropriate. For example, if we decide to introduce American poetry during the first quarter we do not necessarly need to be using the same poems but we need to be using them to teach the same concepts and skills. (//This is the type of map I think we should focus on creating. Sometime these types of maps are called essential maps, core map, and master maps)//

**Strands** - The old Ohio Curriculum included standards, benchmarks and indicators. The Common Core has Strands For ELA the Strands are Reading: Literature, Reading: Informational Text, Writing, Speaking and Listening, Language. Each Strand is divided into standards. The standars are organized into sub-strands.

Qualitative- Level of meaning and purpose Quantitative-word length or frequency, sentence length, text cohesion. Measured by computer software. Ex. Lexile Level Reader and Task Considerations-variables specific to each reader-- motivation, knowledge, experience, task to be completed
 * Text Complexity- **

2. List of the strengths in our current curriculum.

3. C hanges that if made could have a significant effect on student performance.

4. Current initiatives (in the school) that will affect curriculum development?

5. What data do we have available to us?

6. What do we need to consider as we create the curriculum? Reading Goal Common Core Standards