Curriculum Mapping - Blog 6/11/08
To tell you the truth, I have nothing to say about curriculum maps.
To say that they help is obvious: Karl already hit on the fallacy of strictly fly-by-night teaching (which stands in contrast to my style, which I call fly-by-early-morning).
To say that they aren't perfect creatures has been echoed repeatedly, as has the idea that this sort of thing is easy to do once you've taught the course and difficult if you haven't.
At most, I can only compare my experience last year with mine now: when Deb and Ward trotted out their curriculum map, I saw it as a super-human feat, to be able to pierce the veils of time and student-competence in order to establish a workable teaching schedule. Having seen the guesswork and fingers-crossed best-wishes that actually go into making one, I realize now it's still a sort of fly-by-night proposition.
