This is the fifth post about how to develop a curriculum review system in one’s school. It deals with where your school stands using a curriculum mapping tool to support the curriculum review process. As the first post on the big picture, these are questions for community members to work through before designing their system. These posts support an article my wife Margaret and I have coming out in the December/January 2008 Learning and Leading with Technology magazine.

1) How does your school currently document and later archive your curriculum?

2) How do you organize your units in timeline, size, importance, etc.?

3) If you have an online curriculum mapping tool, what are its strengths and weaknesses? What barriers are there to using it?

4) If you don’t have a mapping tool, what are your school’s barriers to purchasing or creating one?

5) How does or doesn’t this tool connect to what is happening in the classrooms?

6) How does it connect to your online course management tool?

7) What does the template for all of your units look like?

8) How is your unit planning template functional in guiding input to lead to output/action?

9) How does it support your school’s teaching and learning beliefs (i.e., mission statement, strategic plan)?

What other questions (and answers) come to mind?