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Music TEKS. Teachers of grades K–12 in Texas public schools are required by law to provide instruction that covers 100% of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) applicable to each grade/level. Below are links to each of the grade/level TEKS for music.
Elementary school students experience music by chanting, singing, playing, moving, reading, writing, improvising, and creating. Leaving out even one element shortchanges students from learning the multi-faceted discipline of music.
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- Teks For Fine Arts, Adopted 2013
- SBOE Fine Arts Teks Review Committees
- Fine Arts Expert Reviewers
The SBOE gave final approval to revised Kindergarten-grade 12 fine arts TEKS in April 2013. The revised fine arts TEKS will beimplemented beginning with school year 2015-2016. The revised TEKS are available on the TEA rules page with “Adopted 2013” noted in the title (Texas Administrative Code (TAC), Title 19, Part II, Chapter 117. Texas Essential ...
The following lists include individuals appointed by the SBOE to serve on fine arts TEKS review committees. Fine arts TEKS review committees began work on the fine arts TEKS in May 2012: Art (PDF 1,014KB) Dance (PDF, 540KB) Music (PDF, 556KB) Theatre (PDF, 548KB) SBOE members nominated fine arts expert reviewers in January 2011.
The following list includes individuals appointed by the SBOE to serve as content expert reviewers for the revision of the fine arts Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills: Santa Barraza, Professor, Department of Art Texas A&M University - Kingsville Review of First Draft Recommendations for Revisions to the Fine Arts TEKS (PDF, 43KB) Mark A. Chandle...
The student describes and analyzes musical sound and demonstrates musical artistry. The student is expected to: (A) identify voices and selected instruments from various musical families; (B) use basic music terminology in describing musical sounds; and (C) identify repetition and contrast in music examples.
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This introduction module will provide an overview to the revised Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for music in elementary, middle, and high school for the State of Texas. In 2015–16, the state of Texas will experience a big change in fine arts education.
KINDER. Foundations: music literacy. The student describes and analyzes musical sounds. Identify the differences between the five voices, including singing, speaking, inner, whispering, and calling voices. Identify the timbre of adult and child singing voices. Identify the timbre of instrument families.
Music, Kindergarten. Four basic strands--perception, creative expression/performance, historical and cultural heritage, and critical evaluation--provide broad, unifying structures for organizing the knowledge and skills students are expected to acquire.
