Curriculum mapping

Question 1

Curriculum Mapping

Answer 1

 Process of organizing core skills, competencies, contents, learning
experiences and assessment used for each course.
 An activity involving teachers and stakeholders utilizing appropriate
strategies.
 Utilizes diagram to correct misalignments and redundancy and
improve overall coherence of a course of study.
 Provides the visual that presents the timeline, sequence and
articulation of content and other important details.

Question 2

Horizontal Alignment

Answer 2

a pacing guide allows teacher
teaching the same subject in a particular grade level to use the same timeline and accomplish the same learning outcomes.

Question 3

Vertical Alignment

Answer 3

is strategy used to ensure that no
overlapping will happen in the process of writing the curriculum. It builds concepts and skills from simple to more complex ones.

Question 4

Subject area alignment

Answer 4

a technique used to ensure coherence
within a subject area for example Mathematics, Science must be aligned within and across year level.

Question 5

Interdisciplinary Alignment

Answer 5

a strategy used to ensure that
content is coherent across multiple subject areas and may be
aligned both within and across year level. It usually emphasize on
essential skills needed by students to succeed in a particular
academic course. For example vocabulary can also be taught in
other subjects not only in English courses.