Curriculum Mapping from a National, State and Local Perspective

1
Curriculum Mappingfrom a National, State
and Local Perspective

• Ensuring a Continuum of Learning
• Childhood through College
• Valerie Truesdale, Ph. D.
• vtruesdale_at_oconee.k12.sc.us

2
Hindsight is 20/20
3
(No Transcript)
4
China now has 6 times the number of graduate
students majoring in engineering as the U.S.
does. and It takes 15 years to train
a good engineer.
5

• Thomas Friedmans statistics in The World is Flat
  cause him to advise the US to WAKE UP before we
  fall too far behind.
• As a nation, we have to do our homework and run
  faster because there are millions of people in
  other lands starving for our jobs.

6
(No Transcript)
7
RESEARCH

• Only about half of our nations ACT-tested high
  school students are ready for college-level
  reading.
• American College Testing, 2006

8

• More than half of students at four-year colleges
  and at least 75 at two-year colleges lack the
  literacy to handle complex real-life tasks such
  as understanding credit card offers.
• Pew Charitable Trust
• Literacy Study January 2006

9

• Reading is an essential component of college and
  workplace readiness.
• Low literacy levels often prevent students from
  mastering other subjects.
• Alliance for Excellent Education 2002

10

• Language capacity is the root of all student
  performance.
• The success of a classroom learning experience
  rests on student language capacity.
• Heidi Hayes Jacobs,
• Active Literacy, 2006

11
(No Transcript)
12

• Eleven percent of college-entering postsecondary
  school students are enrolled in remedial reading
  coursework.
• National Center for
• Educational Statistics 2003

13

• Seventy percent of students who took one or
  more remedial reading courses do not attain a
  college degree or certificate within eight years
  of enrollment.
• U. S. Department of Education, Institute of
  Education Sciences,
  2004

14
(No Transcript)
15

• In a fall 2005 national survey of college
  freshmen, researchers reported,
• The proportion who said they had been frequently
  bored in class during their last year in high
  school hit a record high of 36, compared with
  26.4 in 1985.
• National Center for
• Policy Analysis

16
Beginning With the End in Mind

• Consider success of students in college,
  technical school and the workplace, using
  published and original data from higher education

17

• Consider authentic research on the success of
  your college students using surveys and focus
  groups
• In a December survey of graduates, we ask this
  essential question
• What skills and competencies did you need in your
  first semester of college that you didnt have?

18
University Feedback

• General Education competencies
• Written and oral communication skills
• Reasoning, critical thinking and problem solving
• Mathematical, scientific and technological
  literacy
• Social and cross-cultural awareness
• Arts and humanities
• Ethical judgment

19
(No Transcript)
20

• Studying the college or universitys rubrics
  enlightens middle and high school teachers about
  the level of student performance expected/
  required for success

21
(No Transcript)
22
Technical/Community College Feedback

• 17 of entering freshmen at local
  technical/community college take comprehensive
  studies (remedial) courses
• Statewide, 37 freshmen take remedial coursework

Source South Carolina Technical College System
Database (2004)
23
SCANS Report
Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary
Skills 1992
24

• Basic skills reads, writes, performs arithmetic
  and mathematical operations, listens and speaks
• Secretary's Commission on
• Achieving Necessary Skills
• (SCANS Report)1992

25
(No Transcript)
26
Collaboration

• Just as we review maps vertically and
  horizontally in schools K-12, we can review maps
  with college and university partners in peer
  review sessions, focus groups, collegial
  sharing/discussion sessions and other venues.

27

• Collaborating with college and technical school
  partners, using
• Backward Design
• - strengthens K-12 maps
• increases K-12 teachers understanding of whats
  expected for success in postsecondary
• raises awareness of higher ed partners about what
  is taught K-12

28
Education is Everybodys Business