Curriculum Map Foundations
When planning for student success curriculum maps, pacing guides, and lesson plans all play a vital role. These components are all essential to student learning and each support student in its own way. These components work hand in hand to drive instruction in the classroom.
Curriculum Maps
Lesson Plans
Pacing Guides
- Focused on learning
- Contains Benchmarks, Standards, Concepts, Skills
- Categorized in Units of Study
- List Misconceptions and Vocabulary
- Includes Strategies
Curriculum maps are essentail when planning for insturction, they include concepts and skills what students need to know as well as provide opportunities for collaboration between educators when creating (GCU Academics, 2018).
- Focused on how students are learning
- Daily Use
- Includes instructional activities
- Contains materials needed and engagement activities
Lesson plans provide teachers with a daily framework to move between subjects and activities. Lesson plans are created by teacher commonly during collaborative planning (Cox, 2019).
- Itinerary/Outline for Teachers
- Flexible
- Includes dates and time for Units
- Guiding document to ensure all benchmarks are taught
Pacing guides provide teachers with an outline for all benchmarks being taught throughout the school year. They provide a chronolgical order, specific timeframe, and big picture for teachers to develop their curriculum maps and lesson plans (Lynch, 2021).
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Curriculum Map Foundations
When planning for student success curriculum maps, pacing guides, and lesson plans all play a vital role. These components are all essential to student learning and each support student in its own way. These components work hand in hand to drive instruction in the classroom.
Curriculum Maps
Lesson Plans
Pacing Guides
Curriculum maps are essentail when planning for insturction, they include concepts and skills what students need to know as well as provide opportunities for collaboration between educators when creating (GCU Academics, 2018).
Lesson plans provide teachers with a daily framework to move between subjects and activities. Lesson plans are created by teacher commonly during collaborative planning (Cox, 2019).
Pacing guides provide teachers with an outline for all benchmarks being taught throughout the school year. They provide a chronolgical order, specific timeframe, and big picture for teachers to develop their curriculum maps and lesson plans (Lynch, 2021).