Pre K TEKS

The Pre-K TEKS provide a foundation for the students to be successful in later grades. It covers the areas of socializing, emotions and academics. For these students to be successful, they need a strong, solid foundation before they can enter later grades. These students need to experience the basics of what it takes to be successful not only in the classroom but in the real world. Some of these successes could include just interaction with peers or adults. I believe these students need to have a positive experience in order to be successful. Technology plays a huge part in these successes. Listening, seeing and interacting with a computer program is just one example.

Scaffolding curriculum:

A scaffolding curriculum is one that provides support for a student to learn the concepts of the curriculum. Once there is an understanding of the concepts that support is no longer needed. If a student can understand the basic concepts, they then can apply that knowledge to solve problems.

Series of TEKS:

I decided choose the area of foundations throughout the TEKS. For grades K-12, the foundations strand sets the standard for the classrooms to function. Without this foundation, the rest of the class would not be able to function:

Foundations: The student demonstrates knowledge and appropriate use of hardware components, software programs, and their connections.

Grades K-2:
(A) Use technology terminology appropriate to task
(C) Use networking terminology such as on-line, network or password and access remote equipment on a network such as a printer.

Grades 3-5:
(A) Use technology terminology appropriate to task
(C) Identify and describe the characteristics of digital input, processing and output.

Grades 6-8:
(A) Demonstrate knowledge and appropriate use of operating systems, software application and communication and networking components.
(B) Compare, contrast and appropriately use the various input, processing, output and primary/secondary storage devices.
(F) Perform basic software applications functions
(G) Explain the differences between analog and digital technology systems
(H) Use terminology related to the Internet appropriately

Grades 9-12
(A) Demonstrate knowledge and appropriate use of operating systems
(B) Compare and contrast and use the various input, output, processing and primary/secondary storage devices
(G) Demonstrate coding proficiency in a contemporary programming language