Product Description

Curriculum maps are among the simplest yet most effective tools for improving teaching and learning. Because they require people to draw explicit connections between content, skills, and assessment measures, these maps help ensure that all aspects of a lesson are aligned not only with each other, but also with mandated standards and tests.

In Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping, Heidi Hayes Jacobs and her coauthors offer a wide range of perspectives on how to get the most out of the curriculum mapping process in districts and schools. In addition to detailed examples of maps from schools across the United States, the authors offer concrete advice on such critical issues as

* Preparing educators to implement mapping procedures,
* Using software to create unique mapping databases,
* Integrating decision-making structures and staff development initiatives through mapping,
* Helping school communities adjust to new curriculum review processes, and
* Making mapping an integral part of literacy training.

Teachers, administrators, staff developers, and policymakers alike will find this book an essential guide to curriculum mapping and a vital resource for spearheading school improvement efforts.

Heidi Hayes Jacobs is the author of Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment, K-12 and Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Design and Implementation. She is based in Rye, New York.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31123 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 181 pages

Customer Reviews

Curriculum Mapping
The book is good for curriculum mapping, although the first book in the series would be better (Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum & Assessment K-12). However, it does a good job of furthering work on collaboration and maintaining a learning community.

difficult to understand
I'm reading this book while I'm waiting for Mapping the Big Picture Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum & Assessment K-12 , so that's part of my problem... I don't think this is the best book to start with to try to build a basic understanding of how to implement curriculum mapping. The major problem, however, seems to be that H. H. Jacobs is such a bad writer. I find myself reading sentences three or four times over because often, it isn't clear what Jacobs is trying to say. Not only is she redundant, she seems to be trying to create a lot of unnecessary jargon. Words like "spiraling" appear to mean something else to her than they do to, you know, the rest of the English-speaking world, so it is necessary for the reader to stop about once or twice on every page and ask herself, "Okay, is she repeating herself here, or is she using this word as a kind of new jargon?"
I don't know about you guys, but I really don't feel like I have time to try to read a book about curriculum written in a foreign language. Frankly, I think I would have an easier time WERE the book written in a foreign language. I have got to find other books about integrating curriculum across grades and incorporating state standards written by someone else and I am open to recommendations.