Organizational+Leadership

Organizational Leadership teachers can create unified interdisciplinary units that foster students understanding of concepts, ideas, and activities across the disciplines

helps foster communication between disciplines

"Maps are designed to provide //authentic evidence// of what has happened or is being planned to happen in a school or throughout a district. Encouraging frequent individual and collaborative revisiting, reviewing, and renewing of available data (e.g., curriculum maps, student assessments/evalautions, teacher-to-teacher instruction observations, formal testing results) through curricular dialogues and collaboratve decison making is at the heart of mapping." [] 21st Century curriculum maps are most often developed and maintained using an Internet-based commercial mapping system. This technological venue provides teachers and administrators with easy access to both the planned and actual horizontal (same grade level and/or same discipline) and vertical (different grade levels and/or different disciplines) curricula for present and past school years. The commercial systems' search features allow teachers to gain instant information in regard to mapping data to aid in curricular dialogue. This means and level of communication is unprecedented. In the not-to-distant past data had to be printed out, copied, distributed, and an in-person meeting held to view and discuss the documents. Curriculum Mapping encourages innovation and thought about meeting differently and in new ways. []

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