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 014 (Global and Regional Patterns of Culture and Human Geography)
The teacher understands global and regional patterns of culture and characteristics and processes associated with different cultural regions. The beginning teacher:
A. Understands the concept of cultural region as an area of Earth’s surface with related cultural characteristics (e.g., language, religion, economy, political system).
B. Analyzes ways in which cultural processes of innovation and diffusion shape patterns in the human environment.
C. Demonstrates knowledge of locations and cultural and environmental features of major world regions (e.g., East Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, Europe, Southwest Asia, North Africa) and regions of the United States and Texas.
D. Understands how the components of culture (e.g., land use, systems of education, religion, language) affect the way people live and shape the characteristics of regions.
E. Demonstrates knowledge of the growth, distribution, movement and characteristics of world populations (e.g., trends in past world population growth, push and pull factors affecting major national and international migrations, ways in which physical and cultural factors affect migration, how migration and immigration have affected societies), and understands the benefits and challenges of globalization.
F. Analyzes ways in which political, economic and social processes shape cultural patterns and characteristics in various places and regions (e.g., analyzing political, economic, social and demographic indicators to determine the level of development and standard of living in countries).
G. Applies knowledge of the history and significance of major religious and philosophical traditions (e.g., Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Realism, Idealism).
H. Understands the importance of place for populations (e.g., Mecca, Jerusalem, Cuzco, Ganges River, Shrine of Guadalupe).
I. Demonstrates knowledge of the impact of religion on the way of life in the United States.
J. Recognizes relationships of the arts to the times in which they were created in the United States and world areas.
Competency 016 (Sociological, Anthropological and Psychological Concepts and Processes)
The teacher applies sociological, anthropological and psychological concepts and processes to understand cultural formation and change, intergroup relations and individual development. The beginning teacher:
A. Understands the role of culture as a foundation of individual and social behavior.
B. Understands the evolving nature of race and gender relations in the United States and knows how people from various racial, ethnic and religious groups have adapted to and modified life in the United States and contributed to a national identity.
C. Analyzes ways in which cultures and societies both change and maintain continuity (e.g., social movements, modernization).
D. Demonstrates knowledge of the theoretical foundations of sociology and basic sociological principles and processes, including those related to group membership, roles, status, values and stratification.
E. Understands the role and influence of social institutions (e.g., family, religion, educational system, science, mass media) in meeting basic societal needs.
F. Demonstrates knowledge of the roles of men, women, children and families in historical and contemporary cultures.
G. Understands ways in which socialization, cultural values and norms vary across space and time and influence relationships within and among groups.
H. Demonstrates knowledge of the theoretical foundations and development of psychology.
I. Demonstrates knowledge of behavioral, social, cognitive and personality perspectives of human identity, development and learning.
J. Understands basic psychological principles and processes, including those related to motivation, sensation and perception, cognition, personality, relationships between biology and behavior and relationships between the self and others.
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Competency 015 (Interactions between Human Groups and the Physical Environment)
The teacher understands the nature and significance of interactions among peoples, places and environments. The beginning teacher:
A. Analyzes ways in which humans depend on, adapt to and modify the physical environment in a variety of cultural and technological contexts.
B. Understands and analyzes how people, places and environments change over time and are connected and interdependent (e.g., impact of different types of natural disasters).
C. Understands types and patterns of settlement and physical and human geographic factors that affect where people settle (e.g., transportation routes, availability of resources) and processes of settlement development over time.
D. Analyzes the influence of physical and human geographic factors on political, social, cultural and economic developments and events in U.S. and world history (e.g., Dust Bowl, opening of the Panama and Suez canals).
E. Analyzes the impact of the Neolithic agricultural revolution on human life and on the development of the first civilizations.
F. Demonstrates knowledge of how population growth and modernization have affected the physical environment throughout history.
G. Understands factors affecting the location of different types of economic activities and economic issues related to the location and management of key natural resources.
H. Understands relationships between physical and human geographic factors and political divisions, relationships and policies (e.g., ways in which forces of conflict and cooperation influence control of Earth’s surface, the influence of physical and human geographic factors on foreign policies of countries such as Iraq, Israel, Japan, and the United Kingdom).
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