Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping [Paperback]

Heidi Hayes Jacobs (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0871209993 | ISBN-13: 978-0871209993 | Publication Date: November 2004

Curriculum maps are among the simplest yet most effective tools for improving teaching and learning. Because they require people to draw explicit connections between content, skills, and assessment measures, these maps help ensure that all aspects of a lesson are aligned not only with each other, but also with mandated standards and tests.

In Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping, Heidi Hayes Jacobs and her coauthors offer a wide range of perspectives on how to get the most out of the curriculum mapping process in districts and schools. In addition to detailed examples of maps from schools across the United States, the authors offer concrete advice on such critical issues as

* Preparing educators to implement mapping procedures,
* Using software to create unique mapping databases,
* Integrating decision-making structures and staff development initiatives through mapping,
* Helping school communities adjust to new curriculum review processes, and
* Making mapping an integral part of literacy training.

Teachers, administrators, staff developers, and policymakers alike will find this book an essential guide to curriculum mapping and a vital resource for spearheading school improvement efforts.

Heidi Hayes Jacobs is the author of Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment, K-12 and Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Design and Implementation. She is based in Rye, New York.

Product Details

• Paperback: 181 pages
• Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve (November 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0871209993
• ISBN-13: 978-0871209993
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,891 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

DR. HEIDI HAYES JACOBS, Executive Director of the Curriculum Mapping Institute and President of Curriculum Designers, Inc., is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of curriculum and instruction. She has served as an education consultant to schools nationally and internationally on issues and practices pertaining to: curriculum mapping, dynamic instruction, and 21st century strategic planning. She is the author of "Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Design and Implementation" and "Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment K-12", "Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping", all published by ASCD. "Active Literacy across the Curriculum: Strategies for Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening" is published by Eye on Education. Dr. Jacobs has published numerous articles which have appeared in professional journals. She just just released The Curriculum Mapping Planner: Templates and Tools for Effective Professional Development, co-authored with Ann Johnson; and, Curriculum 21: Essential Education for A Changing World will be released in January 2010 and was selected as the worldwide member book by ASCD.

In January, 2010, she will be addressing the United Nations Council on Teaching about the UN. Over the years
she has taught courses at Teachers College, Columbia University, NYC, from 1981 to the present. Dr. Jacobs has worked with the College Board, NBC Sunday Today Show, PBS Teacherline, the Discovery Channel, Children's Television Workshop, CBS National Sunrise Semester, ASCD, The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, New York City Ballet Education Department at Lincoln Center, Peace Corps, the National School Conference Institute, the Disney Company, Prentice-Hall Publishing, the Near East School Association, East Asian Council of Overseas Schools, The Tri-Association of Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean, the International Baccalaureate, the European Council of International Schools, and state education departments. She has been interviewed and featured in the New York Times, Educational Leadership, and Child Magazine, NASSP's High School and National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation" Broadcast. Dr. Jacobs has published curriculum materials with Prentice Hall, Milton-Bradley, the Electric Company, and Bowmar Publishing. ASCD has two video series focusing on Dr. Jacobs' curriculum models. In addition, Video Journal of Education features a series on her work, including Aurora Awards platinum award-winning Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening across the Curriculum video series.

Her doctoral work was completed at Columbia University's Teachers College in 1981 where she studied under a national Graduate Leadership Fellowship from the United States Office of Education. Her master's degree is from UMASS at Amherst and her undergraduate studies were at the University of Utah in her hometown of Salt Lake City. The fundamental backbone of her experience comes from her years as a teacher of high school, junior high school, and elementary children in Utah, Massachusetts, and New York. She is married with two children and lives in Westchester County, New York.

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Curriculum Mapping, August 3, 2005

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K. Zuber "Zube" (London Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping (Paperback)

The book is good for curriculum mapping, although the first book in the series would be better (Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum & Assessment K-12). However, it does a good job of furthering work on collaboration and maintaining a learning community.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars difficult to understand, November 3, 2008

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J. Stout (Portsmouth, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping (Paperback)

I'm reading this book while I'm waiting for Mapping the Big Picture Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum & Assessment K-12 , so that's part of my problem... I don't think this is the best book to start with to try to build a basic understanding of how to implement curriculum mapping. The major problem, however, seems to be that H. H. Jacobs is such a bad writer. I find myself reading sentences three or four times over because often, it isn't clear what Jacobs is trying to say. Not only is she redundant, she seems to be trying to create a lot of unnecessary jargon. Words like "spiraling" appear to mean something else to her than they do to, you know, the rest of the English-speaking world, so it is necessary for the reader to stop about once or twice on every page and ask herself, "Okay, is she repeating herself here, or is she using this word as a kind of new jargon?"
I don't know about you guys, but I really don't feel like I have time to try to read a book about curriculum written in a foreign language. Frankly, I think I would have an easier time WERE the book written in a foreign language. I have got to find other books about integrating curriculum across grades and incorporating state standards written by someone else and I am open to recommendations.