Texas TEKS 4.16.B
The Standard
identify leadership qualities of state and local leaders, past and present.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify qualities such as honesty, responsibility, courage, cooperation, and service. They use specific actions to explain how past and present Texas state or local leaders showed those qualities.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can name a state or local leader and identify two leadership qualities. The student supports each choice with a specific decision, action, or accomplishment.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may confuse a leader's title, popularity, or power with a leadership quality. They may name national leaders, or list qualities without linking them to specific actions.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Choose one past or present Texas state or local leader. Name two leadership qualities and cite one action that shows each quality.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Students sort printed action cards from Texas leaders under quality labels, then defend two placements with evidence.
Write: Which leadership quality best helps a mayor solve a community problem, and why? Use one leader's action as evidence.
Play a matching game pairing leader profiles with qualities, earning a point only when a specific action supports the match.
Read a local government news article, identify one leader's action, and explain which leadership quality the action shows.
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