TechPaths™: A Curriculum Mapping System was developed by leaders in the education market to help school districts realize their most important objectives:
- Increasing student achievement
- Aligning curriculum and assessment to state standards
- Implementing a better way to share information
- Creating more effective units, lessons, and assessments
Powered by the best thinking and the most advanced technology
The pioneering work of Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs—as outlined in her groundbreaking book Mapping the Big Picture—forms the solid foundation on which TechPaths is built. Our mapping and education experts have taken Dr. Jacobs’s ideas to a new level of sophistication while making the mapping process easier than ever. At each stage, TechPaths guides you with our exclusive technological enhancements. In addition, the Review of Maps Cycle proposed by Dr. Jacobs is greatly augmented in our reports.
Stage One: Entering Data
Our user-friendly interface makes it easy to create a rough-draft map and unit design, including lessons and assessments.
Stage Two: First Read-Through
This is a summary of all maps by department, grade, and course, with the frequency count for each element entered.
Stage Three: Mixed-Group Review
Reports that indicate key areas with repetitions and gaps are identified according to department, grade, and course. This provides valuable information for group decision making.
Stages Four and Five: Large-Group Review and Revision
Revisions, once determined, can be copied from one computer to another. This efficiently combines two stages into one.
Stage Six: Long-Term Research and Development
At this stage, a library of lessons, units, and assessments is created. This library provides information about practices “below the surface” of the maps. Analysis of the data leads back to Stage One and curriculum revision.
Searching + sharing + creating + adopting + adapting = SUCCESS
The TechPaths system has powerful capabilities that allow teachers to extensively search and share information while they create contents, skills, assessments, lessons, units, essential questions, and maps. This lets them recognize and adopt new ideas and best practices. Teachers can then adapt their colleagues’ work for their own unique needs—and thus create new content that they can share.
TechPaths benefits for teachers, administrators, and schools:
- User-friendly interface, making it easy to develop monthly curriculum units
- FREE district and international search function that gives new teachers a good head start
- Powerful search engine connected to a bank of up-to-date maps, assessments, lessons, and unit designs that can be accessed by colleagues
- Hot links to important resources on the Web or other networks
- Clear, easy-to-implement way of aligning standards to essential questions, contents, skills, assessments, and lessons
- Detailed reports on alignment of curriculum, instruction, and assessment with state and local standards
- Data for reviewing the implementation of curriculum and instruction when receiving assessment information from state and standardized tests
- A rich and growing resource for identifying and sharing best practices
- Superior decision making based on mapped information of actual classroom reality
As part of the Performance Pathways™ suite, TechPaths works flawlessly with the other integrated applications so that you can:
- Access information for data-driven decisions that enhance instruction
- Deliver clear and concise charts and graphs for educators, administrators, and parents
- Create, score, and analyze local benchmark assessments
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