Now available!
The Children’s Learning Institute partnered with the Texas Education Agency to provide free, online training that guides teachers through the child outcomes and instructional strategies presented in the Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines (Revised 2015).
All learning domains
The training covers all ten learning domains of the revised 2015 guidelines: Social and Emotional Development • Language and Communication • Emergent Literacy, Reading • Emergent Literacy, Writing • Mathematics • Science • Social Studies • Fine Arts • Physical Development • Technology
Extensive video
Child outcomes and specific instructional strategies are explored through extensive video filmed in real Texas preK classrooms. Video commentary guides the viewer in what to look for. Each subdomain also links to video lessons in the CIRCLE Activity Collection that support the child skills discussed.
Certificates
Teachers will be able to earn continuing professional education (CPE) credits or child care licensing clock hours for completing the training.
View the introduction videos for each course below.
I. Social & Emotional Development
3 hoursChild outcomes in self-concept skills, self-regulation (behavior, emotional, and attention control), relationships with others, and social awareness.
II. Language & Communication
3 hoursChild outcomes in listening comprehension, speaking (conversation) skills, speech production, vocabulary, sentences and structure skills.
III. Emergent Literacy-Reading
3.5 hoursChild outcomes in motivation to read, phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, comprehension of text read aloud, and understanding of print concepts.
IV. Emergent Literacy-Writing
2 hoursChild outcomes in motivation to write skills, understanding of writing as a process, and an understanding of conventions in writing.
V. Mathematics
3 hoursChild outcomes in counting, adding to/taking away skills, geometry and spatial sense, measurement, and classification and patterns skills.
VI. Science
2.5 hoursChild outcomes in physical science (e.g, motion and energy), life sciences (organisms and their environments), and earth and space science.
VII. Social Studies
2 hoursChild outcomes in people, past, and present skills, economic skills, geography, and citizenship.
VIII. Fine Arts
1.5 hoursChild outcomes in art skills, music skills, and dramatic expression.
IX. Physical Development
1.5 hoursChild outcomes in gross motor development, fine motor development, and personal safety and health skills.