Curriculum Mapping is the process of designing the curriculum implementation procedure within an educational setup. After adapting an international curriculum, an educational institution has to specify the scope and sequence of delivering the standards to the learners. Many elements play a vital role in determining whether the curriculum mapping design is “fit for purpose”. Some of those elements are: learning environment, teacher qualifications, resources, learners’ demographics, span of time, and the institution mission statement. As educators, we need to think about the following important aspects when we design the curriculum mapping structure.

 

1. The educational institution has to provide a balanced, flexible and diversified curriculum through encountering for almost all stated competencies in the adapted international curriculum

 

2. The curriculum specialist has to design adjustments to ensure that the offered curriculum structure is culturally relevant such as changing the currency of problem solving questions using the local currency, using basic features within the local society to connect learning to real life situations.

 

3. The curriculum specialist has to include historical development of selected mathematics and science topics to deepen students’ understanding of how the concepts have evolved and been refined in the past.

 

4. Curriculum standards have to be rephrased to foster lifelong learning skills. The competencies in the curriculum have to reflect the believe in how important it is for learners to learn how to learn, think critically, analyze, solve, and communicate with others effectively. This will enable learners to confront current and future challenges.

 

5. The standards promote positive values and attitudes to learning and keenness to participate confidently in competencies.

 

6. The curriculum has to be an inclusive educational plan which is a stimulates for personal achievements through the broadening of experience of the world. It has to be an encouragement toward informed and responsible citizenship.

 

7. The curriculum mapping develops the dimensions of the subject development from one grade to another as well as the links across subjects where there are common issues or areas of learning.

 

 

8. The curriculum mapping develops the ethos of the school around a dimension focused on cultural development where each subject specialist develops cross-curriculum projects linking identity and cultural diversity

 

9. The curriculum mapping provides a balanced curriculum which explores multi-cultural perceptions and examples, valuing a unified society such as bonds with peers, relevance of learning tasks to daily life experiences, hobbies and future careers.