Candyce Park’s Super Awesome
Social Studies Study Guide
Here are the competencies that you have nailed. Read over them from time to time to stay fresh but don’t spend forever on them.
Competency 010 (Exploration and Colonization)
The teacher understands significant historical developments and events in Texas through the beginning of the Mexican National Era in 1821. The beginning teacher:
A. Understands the important similarities and differences among American Indian groups in Texas including the Gulf, Plains, Puebloan and Southeastern groups.
B. Demonstrates knowledge of the traditional historical points of reference in the history of Texas during the Spanish colonial period.
C. Understands the major causes and effects of European exploration and colonization of Texas.
D. Understands how significant individuals, events and issues shaped the early history of Texas from the Spanish Colonial Era to the Mexican National Era (e.g., Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, José de Escandón, Fray Damián Massanet, Francisco Hidalgo, Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, Moses Austin).
E. Understands the impact of major geographic features of Texas on American Indians and settlers, and how various groups altered the natural environment through the beginning of the Mexican National Era.
F. Demonstrates knowledge of significant cultural and economic developments in Texas history through the beginning of the Mexican National Era.
Filling in the gaps. Here are the competencies that need work with some added assistance.
Competency 011 (Independence, Statehood, Civil War Reconstruction and Aftermath)
The teacher understands significant historical developments and events in Texas from 1821 to 1900. The beginning teacher:
A. Demonstrates knowledge of the individuals, issues and events related to Mexico becoming an independent nation and the impacts of this event on Texas.
B. Demonstrates knowledge of important individuals, events and issues related to the Texas Revolution (e.g., the Law of April 6, 1830, Fredonian Rebellion, Battle of Gonzales, Surrender at Goliad, Battle of the Alamo, Battle of San Jacinto, George Childress, Juan N. Seguín, Antonio López de Santa Anna, William B. Travis, James Fannin).
C. Demonstrates knowledge of important individuals, events and issues related to the history of the Republic of Texas and early Texas statehood (e.g., Stephen F. Austin, Lorenzo de Zavala, Sam Houston, Joshua Houston, Mary Maverick, Mirabeau Lamar, the Córdova Rebellion, the Council House Fight, the Santa Fe Expedition, United States-Mexican War).
D. Demonstrates knowledge of important individuals, issues and events of the Civil War and Reconstruction in Texas (e.g., Jack Coffee Hayes, John Bell Hood, John Magruder, Battle of Galveston, the Battle of Palmito Ranch).
E. Understands the major effects of Reconstruction on the political, economic and social life of Texas.
F. Understands the major causes and effects of the expansion of settlement along the frontier in Texas and of the conflicts between some settlers and American Indian groups (e.g., Quanah Parker, Texas Rangers, Buffalo Soldiers).
G. Understands the impact of major geographic features of Texas on migration, settlement patterns and economic development and how various groups altered the natural environment. I. Demonstrates knowledge of major cultural developments in Texas in the period 1821 to 1900.
Competency 012 (Texas in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries)
The teacher understands significant historical developments and events in Texas from 1900 to the present. The beginning teacher:
A. Understands the impact of individuals and reform movements such as the Progressive movement and the Civil Rights movement on Texas in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries (e.g., Jane McCallum, Lulu Belle Madison White, Manuel C. Gonzales, Oveta Culp Hobby, James Hogg, Hector Garcia).
B. Understands the political, economic, cultural and social impacts of major events in the twentieth century, including World War I, the Great Depression, World War II and the Cold War on the history of Texas.
C. Understands the political, economic and social impact of major events and individuals in the latter half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries on the history of Texas (e.g., Kay Bailey Hutchison, Barbara Jordan, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Henry B. Gonzalez, Lyndon B. Johnson, James Farmer, George Walker Bush, Craig Anthony Washington, immigration, Rust Belt to Sun Belt migration).
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D. Understands the impact of major developments in manufacturing, the petroleum and gas industry (e.g., Spindletop), commercial agriculture (e.g., cotton, citrus, beef and dairy production) and suburbanization and how various groups altered the natural environment from 1900 to the present.
E. Understands the effect of major developments in computer technology, transportation (including aerospace) and medical research on the contemporary economic and social history of Texas.
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