The curriculum mapping is a vital tool to reach the objectives and outcomes of a curriculum.

It
demonstrates the link between all elements of the curriculum so that all the relations are carefully
visualized. The curriculum integrates two important attributes of the curriculum which are the
transparency and the communicability. Those are important when it comes to explain when, how and
what is taught how it assesses. The curriculum, whatever its statute, needs to be monitored and
assessed because there is discrepancy possibilities between what students is supposed to learn and
what they effectively learn. In the monitoring and evaluation process come the use and importance of
curriculum mapping. Having said that, no matter what the importance of the curriculum mapping is, it
has its pros and cons aspects. The idea of that paper is to show those pros and cons aspects.

Pros of the curriculum mapping

Pros

- Unity in the content being taught

The curriculum mapping help preventing discrpency between what is taught in every place.It ensure that
each student receive the same knowledge and body of competency. Students can compare their
knowledge and learn from each other as they are learning the same thing. It facilitate group work
among students of different schools in the same level.

- It facilitates lesson plan

Teachers has to create less lesson plan in that sense lesson plans used for that year can still be used for
the next year as the content is the same.

- Consistency among grade

In that sense, the same skills are taught in every grade and there are few overlap in the curriculum.
Teacher knows with no drought what students have learnt in the previous grade.

Cons

- It is time consuming

Developing curriculum mapping takes times and most of the time teachers may not have that time. It
requires a lot of monitoring and evaluation, to test students, to create dashboard on curriculum
dashboard etc. Those requires time that usually teachers do not have.

- It requires planning beforehand

Many teachers have difficulties to plan ahead.

The curriculum mapping have good and bad sides. Good sides are more than bad one.

Reference

How does curriculum mapping benefit teachers? (October 28, 2009). Retrieve from
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 Clark, S. (2010). Jerome Bruner: Teacher, Learning and the Spiral Curriculum. Community and
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