Summary - Pre-K Technology Applications TEKS

The scaffolding curriculum for Pre-K Technology Application TEKS. This section features five of the domains outlined in the 2008 Texas Pre-Kindergarten Guidelines. Each domain includes video examples of the specific outcomes filmed in Texas Pre-Kindergarten classrooms. In examples of different lessons, teachers are addressing multiple outcomes within and across domain areas. Teachers use a variety of teaching strategies to help children learn most effectively in the classroom preparing then for the next stage in learning. An example is having students play in the hardware store. The students vocabulary can be expanded, recognize words, and have the students participate in their classroom community. Math activity by counting pumpkins, children are engaged in learning across domains and their instruction is scaffolded. The teachers and children show interactions that promote multiple skills at the same time so that many domains can be covered at one time. Students are beginning to be trained to become involved in the technology world that we live in today.