Learn about the 2022 guidelines!
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 revised Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines, published in 2022.
All learning domains
The training covers all ten learning domains of the revised 2015 guidelines: Social and Emotional Development • Emergent Literacy: Language and Communication • Emergent Literacy: Reading • Emergent Literacy: Writing • Mathematics • Science • Social Studies • Fine Arts • Physical Development • Technology Applications
Extensive video
Child outcomes and specific instructional strategies are explored through extensive video filmed in real Texas pre-K 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
Earn continuing professional education (CPE) credits or child care licensing clock hours for completing each training module.
TO ACCESS THIS TRAINING:
Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines Training is available for all users! All you need to do is create a free account, then login to CLI Engage.
If you aren’t already logged in, this link will take you to the CLI Engage login screen then direct you straight to the course.
View the introduction videos for the courses currently available
I. Social & Emotional Development
Child outcomes in self-concept skills, self-regulation (behavior, emotional, and attention control), relationships with others, and social awareness.
II. Emergent Literacy: Language & Communication
Child outcomes in listening comprehension, speaking (conversation) skills, speech production, vocabulary, sentences and structure skills.
III. Emergent Literacy-Reading
Child outcomes in motivation to read, phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, comprehension of text read aloud, and understanding of print concepts.
IV. Emergent Literacy-Writing
Child outcomes in motivation to write skills, understanding of writing as a process, and an understanding of conventions in writing.
V. Mathematics
Child outcomes in counting, adding to/taking away skills, geometry and spatial sense, measurement, and classification and patterns skills.
VI. Science
Child outcomes in physical science (e.g, motion and energy), life sciences (organisms and their environments), and earth and space science.
VII. Social Studies
Child outcomes in people, past, and present skills, economic skills, geography, and citizenship.
VIII. Fine Arts
Child outcomes in art skills, music skills, and dramatic expression.
IX. Physical Development
Child outcomes in gross motor development, fine motor development, and personal safety and health skills.
X. Technology Applications
Child outcomes in technology devices and application skills.
Please note, these courses were updated in 2023 to align with the 2022 version of the Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines. If you previously completed the prior version of these modules (aligned to the 2015 Guidelines), you can still access those certificates and also complete these new modules in CLI Engage.