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Using Curriculum Maps at Dana Hall School
The Curriculum Maps at Dana Hall are an electronic database that stores information on curriculum. Over the past few years, teachers have entered data and edited their maps to provide a source of information for other teachers to access. For more information about Curriculum Maps, the website at the following address contains helpful information:
Notes from the Curriculum Task Force
2000 - 2002
Goals:
To discover what knowledge and skills students bring to and take from our classes, both within a given year and consecutively through their Dana Hall years
To best articulate the curricular transition from Middle to Upper School
To learn teaching strategies and methodologies from each other
To engender cross-disciplinary connections and teaching
To explore ways in which our curriculum addresses issues related to diversity and multiculturalism
How will curriculum mapping at Dana Hall contribute to a stronger academic program?
It will:
-Help individual teachers make adjustments to a course from one year to the next
-Help new teachers gain a sense of what curriculum to include in their courses
-Help teachers of the same section of a course work together
-Help advisors have a better understanding of what is covered and what happens in individual courses
-Help teachers of sequential courses know what has been taught in the previous year or what will be taught in the following year
-Help department and division heads gain a better understanding of individual courses
-Help teachers plan for interdisciplinary work
-Help foster consistency in the teaching of skills
-Help ease the transition of students new to the school
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