TA TEKS

According the Prekindergarten guidelines regular access to technology can enhance the student’s ability to acquire information, solve problems and communicate with others. Children should be provided with an age appropriate instructional programs that provide them with these opportunities. At this age children should gain confidence in using the technology. Students should be able to have basic use of software programs, use a variety of input devices, uses basic technical terminology, follows basic cues, and enjoys information text. The technology TEKS are spiraled through the rest of the academic years. Students are meant to master the skills according to their developmental level. For example, as their vocabulary expands so should their mastery of technical terminology. In another instance of spiraling students are expected to demonstrate an increase in keyboarding proficiency in both the grades 3-5 and 6-8 TEKS. In all grade levels students are expected to gather information of greater difficulty per grade level. The programs that students are expected to master also increase in difficulty; however, they are expected to interact with programs at every grade level. There remains consistency in the technology TEKS. The mastery of these abilities is spiraled by grade levels.