- Generates ongoing dialogue amongst educators, parents and students about the curriculum.
- Mapping identifies what occurs in the real time of the classroom and provides insight about the difference between the written curriculum and what is actually taught.
- Results in the integration of innovative and exemplary practices with a standards-based approach to instruction.
- Provides teachers with ready access to authentic assessment activities and resource materials.
- Identifies learning experiences or activities that should be assured for all students within the course of study.
- Transforms the many, varied curriculum guides into a computer viewable series of maps that shows the scope and sequence of each K-12 curriculum.
- Examines the relationship between district curricula and state and national standards.
- Creates a scope and sequence for each curriculum that makes it easier to identify any gaps or overlaps in the curriculum.
- Helps each teacher understand what has been taught to students at prior grade levels.
- Helps each teacher understand the curriculum progression and their role in preparing students for subsequent years.
- Demystifies the K-12 student curricular experience by allowing educators, parents and students to observe the progression of instruction from one year to the next.
- Provides an efficient means of monitoring and making decisions about curriculum.
Are we teaching our students a coherent curriculum?
Will our students have the necessary instruction to help them
meet state and national standards?
Is the curriculum timely and relevant?
Will students be ready for the next year's work?
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Helps teachers plan to link learning across subject areas.
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Helps teachers plan to integrate technology in the classroom.
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Helps special education teachers plan program modifications to meet the Individual Education Plans of students with special needs.
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