TSA’s Middle School and High School Leadership Lessons were developed for the purpose of enhancing the learning of chapter members as they participate in the many competitive events offered through TSA’s competitive event program. The leadership lessons are specifically designed to provide a better understanding of the core leadership skills learned through participating in the competitions.

The leadership lessons correlate to the ten core leadership skills found in TSA competitions as defined by the ITEA’s Standards for Technological Literacy publication. These skills are: communication, creative thinking, critical thinking, decision making, ethics, evaluation, organization, problem solving, self esteem, and teamwork.

Each lesson describes the objective, the time the lesson will take, the materials needed, the activity itself, and processing or follow up to use after the lesson is complete. The lessons allow the opportunity for each TSA advisor to integrate timely technological curriculum concepts into the learning and maintain the advisor’s unique teaching styles. The Leadership Lessons component of the TOTAL TSA CDis a resource given to all chapters at the time of affiliation.  Below are two high school and two middle school sample leadership lessons.

Sample High School Leadership Lessons

Creative Thinking
Critical Thinking
Integration of Leadership Lessons with Contests

Sample Middle School Leadership Lessons

Critical Thinking
Organization
Integration of Leadership Lessons with Contests