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Creating Quality Maps

In this video provided by Curriculum Designers, Inc., Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs explains her thoughts on creating quality maps. This video runs 2 minutes and 25 seconds.

Summary

In this video, Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs discusses quality in mapping with Curriculum Designers Inc, Director of Communications Earl Nicholas. He asks Dr. Jacobs how quality in mapping relates to getting started. Dr. Jacobs acknowledges she erroneously assumed teachers would have a good understanding of content, skills, assessment, and essential questions. She believes teachers need to study those elements to enhance such knowledge. In regards to mapping, teachers need to

  • examine what a good quality content entry looks like;
  • know how that aligns with distinctive proficiency skill entries;
  • understand how those culminate in a meaningful and productive assessment product or performance; and
  • how to embrace those with powerful, essential questions.

Dr. Jacobs mentions teachers need time to get mapping right. To learn what a quality entry looks like, they should study quality maps. As maps are produced in an electronic form, it is easy to keep upgrading them. Teachers need to keep in mind there is no "perfect map;" teachers must keep working to update their maps.

This video runs 2 minutes and 25 seconds.



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