Asset Mapping
Guidebook
What’s in this
Guidebook?
What’s an Asset Map? How do I use one?
Asset Mapping is a strategic approach to identify and leverage the existing resources, strengths, and potential in your teaching environment. You use them to support intentional collaboration and instructional alignment between your lesson plans and the greater school community.
Questions to Consider
What do you have already planned?
No need to start from scratch. Use an upcoming unit where you have the flexibility to include community assets!
What will the uncovered assets provide?
Will they provide resources, information, a different location or facility? How can these new resources enhance the teaching and learning experience?
Will the uncovered assets distract or add to your plans?
Remember, you want to enhance your lesson plan not make it more complicated. Remain intentional and look for alignment.
Community Assets
Professional Assets
Asset Mapping Activity
Student Assets
Classroom Assets
The assets my students have are…
The assets my classroom has are…
The assets my community has are…
The assets I have are…
Link your lesson plan here!
Professional Assets
Asset Map Planning Prompts
What key assets do you want to work with?
What support do you need to make it happen?
How does it align with your lesson plan?
How can you continue to incorporate student voice?
The key assets I will work with are…
These assets can enhance and align with my lesson by…
In order to make this happen I need support with/from…
I can continue to collaborate with students by…
Relationship Building Activities
Use these activities to learn your students strengths, interests, qualities, talents, and backgrounds!
Adapt this activity by having students map out what they love about themselves, their passions, and interests.
Have students share in a pair and share to increase belonging in the classroom.
A classic and fun icebreaker that not only helps students get to know one another but also allows you to learn more about the backgrounds and interests of your students.
Ask your students to draw three concentric circles on a piece of paper. Give them a topic and ask them to write it in the center circle. In the second circle students write “love”, in the third “like”, and outside the circles “don’t like”.
Under the topic, students individually choose a specific example to focus on (e.g., bananas, spring, tennis). Students then mingle and ask their classmates how they feel about the item they have chosen, writing the students’ names in the circles that correspond to their opinions. Repeat with another topic.
Professional Assets
Reflection Prompts
What went well and why?
How did you feel before, during and after executing this lesson?
What surprised you?
What do you hope to build going further?
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