My Curriculum Maps
Curriculum Mapping is a tool that allows educational organizations to outline the content of their curriculum, align curriculum to the Pennsylvania Academic Standards, and to make the maps available to district personnel online.
A curriculum map:
- Captures the content, skills, and assessments taught or administered at each grade level within a school building or district.
- Organizes this information into an easily accessed visual that presents a timeline of instruction by grade level or course.
- Ensures that there is consistency from one grade level to the next and there is little redundancy in what is being taught at each grade level.
Once Curriculum Maps have been established for a school/district/organization, the tool allows teachers to create personalized instructional maps based on their own pedagogical approach and share those maps with other educators.
The Curriculum Mapping tool allows teacher to access district curriculum maps and the PA Core Standards Instructional Frameworks for English Language Arts and Mathematics. The Instructional Frameworks are not intended to be all-inclusive but are designed to be used as examples of content and topics that are aligned to the PA Core Standards. The maps should be used as guides for schools and districts to review, revise, and create their curricula using these as a foundation or reference.
The PA Core Standards Instructional Frameworks:
- Begin in Pre-Kindergarten and conclude with high school courses through grade 12.
- Offer a framework of 36 weeks of instruction at each grade level.
- Can be downloaded and edited by those with curriculum adminstration privileges in the SAS portal.
*Note: Additional SAS training is available for Curriculum Mapping.