Curriculum Mapping - Big Ideas

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Curriculum Mapping: The Big Picture Reflection Essay Curriculum Mapping: The Big Picture This course has opened up a lot of areas I took for granted in teaching and learning. The theory behind the course is centered on creating highly successful learners and critical thinkers, which are aligned to my philosophy and beliefs of making independent learners and problem solvers of all students, whether high or low achievers. The resource materials made available for this course were organized and the instructor’s coordination in driving the theory is commendable. The major concepts used to drive this course are, the Backward Design and Curriculum Mapping. The Interdisciplinary Unit Plan linking other subjects to the main subject matter encourages imagination and creativity as well as the skill of recall among the students. The coherence of these concepts, embrace the whole ethos of the essence of teaching and learning in the education of the children to prepare them for the 21st century. The strategies used in this course has been, what I will term, the three ‘R’s – Review, Revise Reinforce. The materials are broken into different weeks in small bite sizes with a lot of supporting materials for each week using the different learning styles. The text materials encourage the read and write learners, like me who like to read and take notes. The information I get in the text materials are also addressed in the video files that encourage audio-visual learning, thus revising what has been read in the texts and reinforcing knowledge of content. Last but not the least, I get to practice what I have learnt in the project work as well as use tools I have never used before to create a wiki. I became a teacher not by design but out of frustration. I questioned the instructional methods and teaching styles of ‘drill and kill’, ‘chalk and talk’ traditional methods
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