Ensuring Teacher Quality Leader's Resource Guide: Format of the TEKS1 The Format of the TEKS and what it means to school leaders and others who support teachers.

Ensuring Teacher Quality Leader's Resource Guide: Format of the TEKS2 Format Overview TEKS do not provide... A complete scope and sequence. A complete course outline. All the essential knowledge and skills students could have. TEKS do provide... An outline of the most important knowledge and skills every student must have.

Ensuring Teacher Quality Leader's Resource Guide: Format of the TEKS3 The TEKS are non-negotiable in Texas. They are law. So what does that mean to me?

Ensuring Teacher Quality Leader's Resource Guide: Format of the TEKS4 TEKS are law, so... Every curricular decision, Every resource purchase, Every teacher placement, Every pedagogical choice, Every professional development opportunity must be grounded in the TEKS.

Ensuring Teacher Quality Leader's Resource Guide: Format of the TEKS5 Elements of the Mathematics TEKS K-Precalculus Introductory Paragraphs Key contextual information Brief overview--essential knowledge and skills Strands Organizers for the knowledge and skills statements Knowledge and Skills Statements Concepts and skills to be learned Student Expectations/Performance Descriptions Demonstration of the concepts and skills learned

Ensuring Teacher Quality Leader's Resource Guide: Format of the TEKS6 Expanded Format of the TEKS KEY: SE-Student ExpectationsPD-Performance Descriptions

Ensuring Teacher Quality Leader's Resource Guide: Format of the TEKS7 A Closer Look: Linear Functions (sample from Algebra I) (A.5) Linear Functions. The student understands that linear functions can be represented in different ways and translates among their various representations. The student is expected to: (A)determine whether or not given situations can be represented by linear functions; (B)determine the domain and range values for linear functions in given situations; and (C) use, translate, and make connections among and algebraic, tabular, graphical, or verbal descriptions of linear functions.

Ensuring Teacher Quality Leader's Resource Guide: Format of the TEKS8 Algebra I and Algebra II: A Conceptual Bridge from K-8 to Higher Mathematics Grades K-8Algebra IAlgebra IIPrecalculus Number, Operation, and Quantitative Reasoning Patterns, Relationships, and Algebraic Thinking Geometry and Spatial Reasoning Measurement Probability and Statistics Underlying Processes and Mathematical Tools Foundations for Functions Linear Functions Quadratic and Other Nonlinear Functions Foundations for Functions Algebra and Geometry Quadratic and Square Root Functions Rational Functions Exponential and Logarithmic Functions In Precalculus, students continue to build on the K-8, Algebra I, Algebra II, and Geometry foundations as they expand their understanding through other mathematical experiences. (First sentence of Introduction to Precalculus.)