Curriculum Mapping Framework
🔎 Project Overview
Faculty at PSU often struggled to see how their weekly activities and assignments connected back to course outcomes — and how those outcomes supported program-level competencies or accreditation standards. To address this, I designed and implemented a Curriculum Mapping Framework: a structured tool that required faculty to align every activity, resource, and assessment to specific outcomes.
This framework gave faculty a clear “line of sight” from student work to learning goals, strengthened PSU’s program coherence, and supported accreditation readiness.
🛠️ My Role
Designed the course mapping template linking module outcomes → activities → content → assessments.
Embedded checkpoints for accessibility, feedback, and alignment.
Facilitated faculty workshops to train instructors in the use of the framework.
Partnered with program directors to ensure maps supported accreditation requirements.
📘 Deep-Dive Narrative
Without clear course maps, students often experienced disjointed courses, while faculty lacked visibility into how individual learning activities built toward bigger outcomes. Program leaders, meanwhile, struggled to demonstrate alignment during accreditation reviews.
I created the Curriculum Mapping Framework to solve these challenges. The template required faculty to:
Define weekly/module outcomes.
Map each activity, reading, and assessment to those outcomes.
Identify how feedback would be provided (formative, summative, just-in-time).
Include checks for accessibility and equity (e.g., UDL practices, multimedia access).
By making alignment explicit, the framework not only improved course design but also helped programs identify gaps, redundancies, and strengths. It became a core part of PSU’s instructional design toolkit.
“Excerpt from PSU’s Curriculum Mapping Framework template, aligning outcomes, activities, content, and assessments with accessibility and feedback checks.”
👥 Leadership in Action
This project required more than creating a template — it required building buy-in from faculty who initially saw mapping as extra work. I facilitated workshops that framed mapping as a way to improve teaching clarity and reduce student confusion, not just a compliance exercise.
One faculty participant reflected:
“The course map helped me finally see how everything fit together. It wasn’t just about accreditation — it made my teaching clearer for students and for me.”
✨ Key Outcomes
Adopted across multiple programs as part of PSU’s design toolkit.
Strengthened PSU’s ability to demonstrate program-level coherence.
Improved faculty understanding of alignment and accessibility in design.
Enhanced student learning experiences through clearer structure and expectations.
