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TEKS – Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills
  • INTEGRATION AND ALIGNMENT
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GOALS
  • To develop an in-depth understanding of the TEKS.
  • To develop basic instructional strategies related to TEKS.
  • To provide a means for linking TEKS across the core curriculum areas.
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GOALS
  • Make TEKS the focus of the curriculum.
  • Provide teachers a process to gain in-depth knowledge of TEKS and a means of adjusting and improving instruction.
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IMPLEMENTATION
  • Step 1
  • Refine & rewrite the TEKS by looking at each statement of student expectation and identifying all components within it.
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IMPLEMENTATION
  • Step 2
  • Designate each component of the TEKS student expectation as knowledge, skill, or concept.  This is a condensation of Bloom’s Taxonomy.  The focus is on explicit knowledge and skills, and implied concepts.
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Example of an end product
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IMPLEMENTATION
  • Step 3
  • Produce a list of pertinent vocabulary, which is derived from the TEKS.
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USING TAKS BLUEPRINTS
  • Example:  4th grade math
  • Objective #questions     # TEKS               %
  • 1 11 41 26.8
  • 2 6 7 85.7
  • 3 6 22 27.3
  • 4 6 19 31.6
  • 5 4 6 66.6
  • 6 8 9 88.8
  • Total 42 104 40.4
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