TEA Pre K TEKS

The TEKS for PreK included skills under social and emotional development, language and communication, emergent literacy in reading, emergent literacy in writing, and math. Students are required to develop a specific set of skills in each predetermined area. Some of the skills included are: self concept, self control, listening, speaking, motivation to read and write, adding, subtracting and measurement.

The knowledge and skills outlined for pre-k students lay an important foundation for continued learning and technology application. The interactive videos are very helpful in showing specifically how students acquire needed knowledge. After reviewing TEKS for all grades it is obvious to see a progression of information. The simple process of motivating a child to read and consistently building on a desire to know words and increase skills in comprehension help build a child's confidence and abilities to continue to build on their foundation.

The example of spiraling curriculum when covering TEKS is the process of building a progression of learning with strategic overlapping and layering made to help students who need added support as they progress. Instead of a teacher spending a great deal of time on one topic until every student gets it, a teacher will spend a shorter amount of time on a topic, catch all the learners who are ready and move on to something else. The teacher will circle different topics over a wide variety and continue to circle until more students are on board. As the teacher spirals she pulls on more learners who are prepared to learn and a teacher is able to cover a greater variety of information.