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TEKS/NETS Comparison |
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Product 1: TEKS/NETS Standards Comparison The Texas and the National Technology Standards have the same basic requirements for all students in our schools today. The students are expected to learn all aspects of utilizing technology by the end of the 12th grade. The NETS Standards utilize six broad classifications from kindergarten to grade 12 and utilize Performance Indicators in order to specify requirements by grade level benchmarks. The TEKS Standards have a basic guideline required for each of the benchmark grade levels as well, but they have further detailed these standards by utilizing four separate teaching strands known as Foundation, Information, Acquisition, Work in Solving Problems, and Communication. The TEKS Standards are more detailed and complex in their teaching strands than the NETS Standards. These four strands are broken down into twelve objectives for educators to incorporate into lesson plans which are then broken down into even more precise teaching objectives. The NETS Standards state the same requirements in their Performance Indicators using grade specified benchmarks in a much simpler format. While comparing the TEKS Standards concerning Solving Problems (9) (A) to the NETS Performance Indicator (9) the developmental capability of students in Pre K-2 have not been realistically evaluated by TEKS Standards in my opinion. Students at a Pre-K level will not be able to search for these software programs or understand how to utilize them once found. This is based upon watching a NETS video online portraying students in the second grade attempting to use a Microsoft Paint program. Some of these second-grade students were having difficulties with the basic instructions for this software and are at a higher developmental level. The NETS Standards for this benchmark grade level stress developmental readiness and do not include assessment technology. This video mentioned above portrayed Ms. Durio working with her 2nd grade students on a Science project concerning charting weather and related social concepts utilizing Kidspiration. The utilization of this software program to create a concept map fulfilled the integration of technology objectives stated in the NETS Standard (3) and Performance Indicators (2), (4), and (5). The students were also working with the Microsoft Paint software and later sharing a digital camera. These technology media being used in the classroom fulfilled the NETS Performance Indicators (1), (2), (8), (9), and (10) for the Pre K-2 requirements. Also mentioned in this video were plans to utilize PowerPoint for a class presentation in the future, however this was not included in the video clips portrayed. This final technology media project would have incorporated NETS Performance Indicators (1), (2), (5), (6), (8), and (10).
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