Post: Writing Curriculum Map

Posted by Becca on 12/31/06

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My school has recently decided they want to develop a
curriculum map (for K-8) for writing. I'm on the committee
in charge of helping develop it and must say I'm currently
feeling #1) stuck and #2) a bit overwelmed when trying to
figure out how to really get started (and the rest of the
committee I'm on is feeling the same way!). This is the
first school-wide curriculum map any of us have done.

To start with, we decided it was probably best to start
with conducting some interviews with the teachers to gather
information about what they are already doing. To make the
interviews as uniform as possible (as a bunch of us will be
conducting them separately) we decided it was best to come
up with a set of questions to specifically ask.

Now my real problem currently comes with trying to figure
out what kind of questions to suggest. Our ultimate goal is
to try to get a picture of what is taught in each grade,
how it's assessed, etc. but after thinking about it for the
past week, I'm still totally brain-dead about how to word a
set of questions to get this info! Can anyone possibly help
me think of some suggestions?? I'd appreciate any ideas I
can get . . .

Posts on this thread, including this one

Writing Curriculum Map, 12/31/06, by Becca.

Re: Writing Curriculum Map, 1/03/07, by Elizabeth.

Re: Writing Curriculum Map, 1/15/07, by right or wrong it helped us.