TAKS Planning for Success Communication, TEKS, Logistics, Training

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TAKSPlanning for Success Communication, TEKS,
Logistics, Training

• ESC XIII

www.esc13.net/taks
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Communicating with Parents and Students

• Deliver to all students and parents of students
  in grades 9 and 10
• Whats available?
• PowerPoint presentation in English and Spanish
  (www.esc13.net/taks/downloads.html)
• Executive Summary
• Practice test

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Communicating with Parents and Students

• Prepare before you present
• Parent comments a selection
• Notification I never knew.
• Teacher quality
• Student expectations do they really need to
  know the Nullification crisis or the surface area
  of a sphere to be productive
• What are you doing about this?
• What kind of support is available?

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Preparing for TAKS Monitoring TEKS-based
instruction

• As prescribed by law, the Exit Level TAKS tests
  will assess at least
• English III
• Algebra I and Geometry
• Early American and United States History, World
  History and World Geography
• Biology and Integrated Physics and Chemistry

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Content v. sequence
Teach the TEKS!

• Social Studies
• US History
• World History
• World Geography
• Science
• Integrated Physics and Chemistry
• Physics AND Chemistry
• Biology

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Content v. Sequence

• Mathematics
• 8th grade TEKS on TAKS
• Probability
• Geometry (grades 9 and 10)
• Algebra
• Geometry
• Language Arts
• Viewing and representing
• Cross-over items

Teach the TEKS!
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Logistics

• Testing calendar a change
• Math test
• Pulling from classes 9, 10, 11
• Structure
• Field tests in January

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Testing Schedule
Field Test Jan 21 Feb. 4
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Logistics

• Tools
• Calculators
• Math graphing
• Science 4 function or graphing
• Clearing programming and memory firewalls
• Dictionaries (Gr. 7 composition, Gr. 9, 10, 11
  reading, Gr. 10, 11 composition)
• 15 required
• 13 preferred
• Recent dictionaries
• English/primary language dictionaries NOT allowed

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Training

• A plan
• General overview did you know we have a new
  test ?
• Content overview
• SOCIAL STUDIES!!!!!
• Strategies
• Information booklets
• Focused Holistic Scoring

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