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Texas Pre-K Guidelines

Overview

Learning experiences of the preschool years provide a foundation that guide children academically, socially, and emotionally. Children’s learning and intellectual growth are affected by the specific experiences they have in a preschool classroom. These experiences can influence the rest of a child's life. The 2008 Texas Pre-Kindergarten (Pre-K) Guidelines were developed to help educators provide all preschool children with the proper foundations for school success.

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) tasked the State Center for Early Childhood Development with facilitating the process to revise the Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines. The revised guidelines were developed with the expertise of writing teams and state and national experts, along with input gathered from public forums across the state and written comments submitted during the public comment period. This feedback was incorporated into the guidelines which were then approved by the commissioner of education on May 21, 2008, and presented to the State Board of Education for review on May 22, 2008. The guidelines will remain voluntary and will guide publishers in revising prekindergarten instructional materials in the future.

• Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines - PDF
• Estándares revisados de prekindergarten de Texas- PDF

This web-based interactive is a professional development tool to orient and provide educators an introduction to the 2008 Texas Pre-Kindergarten Guidelines. The sectionFrom the Guidelines includes video examples of child behaviors in five domains (social and emotional development, language and communication, emergent literacy: reading and writing, and math) and provides instructional strategies teachers can use to support students. The section Classroom Examples of Integrated Instruction includes video examples of classroom interactions where several outcomes from the guidelines are combined. Click here to begin the web-based training.

The Prekindergarten Guidelines Training DVD is offered as a means of providing access to the training for those users who may not have the internet capabilities to run the web-based program. IF you have sufficient internet connectivity and band width, you should not need the DVD. The cost of the Pre-K Guidelines Training DVD is $20.00 per DVD. Click here to order.

Latest Development

• Letter from the Office of Commissioner - Texas Education Agency