Curriculum Mapping Symposium

Chic Foote, Christine Smith and Chris Guthrie
Helix Consulting

Day 1

Process and Practice

Curriculum with a Difference 

What to cut? What to Keep? What to Create?

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Four Phases of Curriculum Mapping – A Dynamic Continuum

·      Review essential requirements of a dynamic school based process

·      Establishing current strengths and gaps. Revising and refining to reflect school goal, culture and values

·      Responding to the emerging focus at each stage of the 4 Phases of Curriculum mapping

T  A Lifelong Impact

    When kids know you refuse to let them fail it puts a different pressure on them and they don't give up so easily. - Geoffrey Canada, Our Failing Schools, Enough is Enough TED Talks

Curriculum Haiku

At five only me

Move towards community

Global citizen

              by Kasha, Casey and Greg


Taking Stock

• Where do we think we are?

• Where are we actually?

• Where do we want to be?

• Create a vision for mapping in your school

• Establish goals and expectations

• Identify common, formats, processes and language

• Identifying long term support systems

• Identify different map types and quality map criteria

• Establish review processes and protocols

• Review, share, upgrade - suspend all judgement

• Use data to inform and strengthen individual and consensus maps

• Establish strengths

• Session using Atlas and the various tools that are available

• Rapu/Search - in results pie and bar graphs to analyse skills/vocab being taught.

• Whakaraparapa/Browse - actions and leave notes

• Knowing the learners (Papatoetoe North) - getting a Maori, Pasifika, Indian perspective.

• Distributed leadership (Bayview) - shared language, upskilling staff, working with experts, reflections.

• Bringing Teacher Conversations into the Maps (Sancta Maria) - Looking at teachers' planning, professional learning conversations with staff around target students and their learning needs, questions, problem solving, addressing issues. 30 ~ 60 mins per conversations.

• Question, observation, suggestion

      Day 2

Phase 1 - Laying the Foundation
Phase 2 - Launching the Process
Phase 3 - Maintaining, Sustaining and Integrating
Phase 4 - Advanced Tasks
     Review Protocols

Curriculum Mapping Phases

Goal Setting
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jx7PFi_jl_Qc7wzQsO2xKzrrcpnfDXc8dnmtTOa1eEM/edit

Purposeful Responsive Curriculum Process

·      Reflective Practice- Establishing and Maintaining the Culture. Modeling and leading the journey

·      Synthesizing the outcomes and taking action- adapting and adjusting to responding to the learning community

Achievement Factor

·      Achieving effective transfer- the ‘so what factor’…… Mapping backwards to tailor teaching and learning to achieve authentic application

·      Raising achievement through authentic assessment. Analyse and examine the data. Informing practice. Improving students outcomes


Seeking Curriculum Colleague 
       I chose you as my lifelong curriculum buddy because you inspire and invigorate me with your positive, enthusiastic personality. You listen actively as we share ideas.  Together we walk the talk and take risks. You are a student yourself, and a 21 century enthusiast. You constructively challenge me to be the best teacher/learner/curriculum buddy I can be. You make me a better person and for these reasons I accept you as my partner in curriculum for as long as we both shall teach.
      (Sarah, Kasha and Greg)

Training 
Level 1: Unconsciously unskilled - PRTs, regular relievers
Level 2: Consciously unskilled - Some of the leaders, Scale As
Level 3: Consciously skilled
Level 4: Unconsciously skilled
Who needs the most support at your school?
What curriculum questions would engage your staff?
What makes a good message?

Communications
Setting up an Inquiry space on Atlas for staff to reflect and challenge themselves for the week ahead. CMC to trial for Term 1. Share with staff in Term 2.  Not just Inquiry though, also teacher plans, samples, resources, ...

       Action Packed Curriculum

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Top Seven Skills Students Need Today

• Critical thinking and problem solving
• C ollaboration across networks and leading by influence
• Effective oral and written communication
• Accessing and analyzing information
• Agility and adaptability
• Curiosity and imagination
• Initiative and entrepreneurialism

        Higher Order Thinking

        Thinking for Understanding

What Super Powers does Atlas provide?

• Search
• Scope

To locate International Curriculums on Atlas

• References
• Reference Standards
• Regional and National
• National 
• eg Australian Curriculum
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Our School Goals Around Curriculum Mapping

Maintaining &   Sustaining Together with SLT, create an action plan that includes timeframes. Adhere to timeframes.

Actions Greg, Kasha and Casey will use their teacher maps for weekly reflection. (Exemplars) Greg, Kasha and Casey will critically reflect on each others maps using the protocol, question, observation, suggestion. Have a meeting with SLT to discuss and get buy in for this initiative. Draft a purpose statement together to present to SLT. Set up Teacher maps for Term 2, review templates and change ifl necessary. Provide Atlas training to teaching staff.

Unpacked Goals To have every teacher use their Teacher Map for weekly reflections. To have a critical friend to ask a question, make an observation and give a suggestion. For teachers to go into other teachers’ maps to support their own development.

‘End in Mind’ Overarching Goals To use the teacher maps in Atlas as an effective reflection tool.

Link to Symposium Slideshows