Some of you may be wondering what TEKS are, well....Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, (or TEKS), is Texas' equivalent to the Common Core Standards. There are only four states that have chosen not to adopt the CCS and Texas is one of them. In case your interested, Alaska, Nebraska and Virginia are the other three.
The TEKS aren't that much different from the CCS. I do like the wording of the CCS better than our TEKS. I found this article from the TX Association of Business that I thought was interesting. It is comparing TEKS to CCS in Math. Here's the link if you're interested.
http://www.txbiz.org/wcnews/NewsArticleDisplay.aspx?articleid=46 What do you think? Any comments or concerns?
Here is a copy of the 2nd Grade TEKS that I have made into a checklist. You can click on the picture or
HERE.
On to less political and more teacher talk. I've copied some of your ideas and made myself a checklist that covers our 2nd Grade TEKS. It's more for myself, but I was thinking of putting a copy of Math and ELAR in the student binders so they can also check off when we cover a standard. Maybe even make a poster of the Math that we can check off together as a class. I think it will also hold them more accountable for their learning. My district has a Common Assessment every 6 weeks that goes over 2n Grade TEKS taught in Reading, Revising & Editing, and Math. This school year they will also be adding Social Studies.
