Curriculum+Survey

toc //This page, and it sub-pages, will contain information regarding the Curriculum Survey of the Harley School's educational work. It will be a place for members of the committee, and the faculty at large, to begin developing a better understanding of the existing K-12 curriculum in the school.//

=Logistics Overview= __Start Date__: March 6, 2012 __End Date__: TBD __Purpose__: To create an online "document" that can communicate to faculty, administrators, students and parents the alignment of topics taught throughout the school in all content and specialty areas. __Method__: Teachers working in both collaborative groups, and as individuals. Members of the Curriculum Committee will help to facilitate this work.

=Preliminaries= The following pages will be used by members of the Curriculum Committee and Department Heads to help learn more about the task being undertaken and orchestrate our initial steps. Many of the resources found on these pages will be from the work of Heidi Hayes Jacobs. She is an internationally know expert in regards to curriculum, curriculum mapping, and instruction. She is head of the Curriculum21 organization, and has written a number of best-selling books pertaining to why, what, and how of mapping educational curriculum. A video of her delivering a TEDxNYED event is embedded below.

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Curriculum Survey - "What?" This page looks at some of the terms associated with this type of curricular document, specifically a "curriculum map" versus a "scope and sequence." Knowledge of these terms will help determine what direction we want to take this survey, and it will enable us to access existing resources more effectively.

Curriculum Survey - "Why?" This page will contain information outlining the value of having a mapped PreK-12 curriculum, and what it enables an educational organization to be able to do.

Curriculum Survey - "How?" This page contains concrete examples of existing curricular documents that various organizations have already produced. These documents will help the committee and the department visualize a format that will work for everyone, and identify elements that every department's curricular document should have.

Curriculum Survey - "Help!" This page is dedicated to collecting comments, questions, and concerns pertaining to the completing of this document.