Competencies and Skills and Blueprints

The competencies and skills are used as the basis for the FTCE General Knowledge Test, FTCE Professional Education Test, FTCE Subject Area Examinations, and Florida Educational Leadership Examination. These competencies and skills can serve as a checklist for assessing your familiarity with each of the areas covered by a test. The test blueprint indicates the approximate percentage of test questions that will cover each specific competency on the exam.

Select a test                                 Subtest 1: Leadership for Student Learning Subtest 2: Organizational Development Subtest 3: Systems Leadership Essay (825) English Language Skills (ELS) (826) Reading (827) Mathematics (828) Professional Education Test (083) Agriculture 6–12 (054) Art K–12 (001) Biology 6–12 (002) Business Education 6–12 (051) Chemistry 6–12 (003) Computer Science K–12 (005) Deaf or Hard of Hearing K–12 (020) Drama 6–12 (006) Earth/Space Science 6–12 (008) Educational Media Specialist PK–12 (010) Elementary Education K–6 (060) Engineering and Technology Education 6–12 (055) English 6–12 (013) ESOL K–12 (047) Exceptional Student Education K–12 (061) Family and Consumer Science 6–12 (052) French K–12 (015) German K–12 (017) Health K–12 (019) Humanities K–12 (022) Latin K–12 (024) Marketing 6–12 (057) Mathematics 6–12 (026) Middle Grades English 5–9 (014) Middle Grades General Science 5–9 (004) Middle Grades Mathematics 5–9 (025) Middle Grades Social Science 5–9 (038) Music K–12 (028) Physical Education K–12 (063) Physics 6–12 (032) Prekindergarten/Primary PK–3 (053) Preschool Education (Birth–Age 4) (007) Reading K–12 (035) School Counseling PK–12 (018) School Psychologist PK–12 (036) Social Science 6–12 (037) Spanish K–12 (039) Speech-Language Impaired K–12 Visually Impaired K–12 (044)