I'm not too proud to say I was on you tube for days. Again, the list of content topics ETS gave was very accurate. This is just facts, either you know the answer or you don't. The social studies one is like the old 5004, it isn't the new CKT format and won't change to that format until 2019.
(I've been teaching primary for years.) The ETS practice test will let you know if you are ready or not. If you are young, chances are you remember much of this stuff from school. I also read all the teacher backgrounds my county has on their website for grades 1-6 for the science units I felt like I didn't know much about. I used Khan academy and youtube vids to study magnetism, waves, life cycles, everything they listed.
Use their list of topics and study each one. Science: Practice test from ETS is worth purchasing so you can see that you don't need to know terms, you need to apply your knowledge to classroom scenarios. :/ I'm old and it has been 35 yrs since I did a lot of this math. Some problems you needed to type answer in square so you didn't have the 1/4 chance of guessing right. This test was a mix of scenarios, which manipulative would be appropriate to use, and straight computation of math story problems. this document really helped me: This is the key: None of the problems were on the test, but it primed my brain for the kind of analysis required on the test. I have very poor number sense and trying to find why student made error took forever and then to select a problem where student will make same error, or select a problem where it will highlight for the student his/her error, was so stressful bc time was ticking. Math: I'm not going to lie it was brutal. The list of topics ETS gave on their study guide was accurate, but hard to study something so broad. It is hard to explain and I don't know how you can prepare for this other than learning all phoneme/phonics terms, spelling stages and writing stages and how to support kids at each level. A lot of reading passages and close reading - question asking skills you'd teach in small group/close reading situations. Lots of phonics stuff - more than I expected. The sub tests in reading, math, and science were about 1/2 scenarios where students have misunderstandings, errors, assumptions and you have to pick best answer that defines their error, another answer that would be as wrong as the student's previous answers were wrong(!), next steps in instruction, or best question you could ask next to correct student's misunderstanding.įor reading: If you don't know phonics terms, phonemic awareness terms, miscue analysis, morphology, etc. The practice tests ETS sells are very much like the format of the test so I'd buy them and practice you won't be sorry. It is a new test so I couldn't find anything on it, either.
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