Pre-K TEKS (Week 1, Part 4)

The Pre-K Technology TEKS lay the foundation for the development of 21st century skills that young children need in order to learn and grow. Upon the completion of Pre-K, the students should be capable of using age appropriate software, appropriate terminology and vocabulary towards technology, and be able to follow basic oral and visual cues for operating programs successfully. All the skills learned within Pre-K are prerequisites that lay down the basic foundation for students in the future. Upon the successful completion of Pre-K, students will be responsible in continuing to learn and follow the state mandated technology TEKS for K-8. Students will be responsible for knowing these TEKS by the end of their 8th grade year.

Students are responsible for obtaining the proper knowledge and skills to complete and follow the technology TEKS by the time they reach the end of 8th grade. When a teacher uses a spiraling or scaffolding curriculum, they are responsible for combining technology and content to help students achieve the highest amount of success. Some examples of scaffolding with the technology TEKS is 10B for communication, from K-2 which states, the student is expected to use font attributes, color, white space, and graphics to ensure that products are appropriate for the communication media including multimedia screen displays and printed materials. The spiraling TEKS continue on to grade 3-5 and 10C for communication says, the student is expected to use appropriate application including, but not limited to, spreadsheets and databases to develop charts and graphs by using data from various sources. As they move to the TEKS in 6-8 the spiraling TEKS include, 10C which states, the student is expected to create a variety of spreadsheet layouts containing descriptive labels and page settings. 10E in 6-8 grade states the students is expected to match the chart style to the data when creating and labeling charts.

As represented in the examples above, you can clearly see how the scaffolding of curriculum and the technology TEKS occurs over the course of the students' education. Pre-K lays the solid foundation for students to be prepared for the 21st century. With the spiraling of content and the TEKS, students are able to build on the previous knowledge and build their foundations to the depth needed in order to compete with the 21st century.

http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/technology/ta/stustd.html