The Spiraling Curriculum and Technology Application

The Pre-K TEKS lay the foundation for success in future grades. They focus on developing a shaping the learner to use technology and relate the use of technology to their everyday lives. It focuses on social and emotional development, language and communication, emergent literacy in reading and writing, and use technology in mathematics. Technology allows teachers to use a variety of teaching strategies to present material to students.

The spiraling curriculum tries not to focus for relatively long periods of time on some narrow topic, instead, a spiral curriculum tries to expose students to a wide varies of ideas over and over and build on those thoughts once the subject is brought up again. Technology Application TEKS use the spiraling curriculum model through continued use of correct terminology in the classroom setting, developing the ability to use different components of software and hardware interchangeably, talking about appropriate and inappropriate uses, effective communication techniques, and develop student’s efficiency with problem solving strategies. These approaches allow for increased mastery in technology knowledge and skills