praxis ii 0041 & 0043 PLEASE HELP!!!!!

[leigha41]

Originally Posted by chuckles

You are studying ten in hope that you will have one of those on your test. Would you explain that? Does the 0041 test require analyzing one literary work? I am taking the test soon, and appreciate your feedback. Thank you!

I would like to know the answer to that too. Thoughts anyone?

[MissCeliaB]

I found 0041 to be pretty easy. With 0043, my issue was running out of time. Luckily I did well enough on the first essay for it to not matter that I didn't do well on the second one. Also, it is lucky that the passing score on that test in my state is embarrassingly low. My strategy for 0043 was to review five works very well, mostly looking at lesson plan ideas for those books. Then I looked at a wide overview, in case none of those five were on there. For 0041, I just reviewed the practice questions on the website.

[MissCeliaB]

Originally Posted by leigha41

I would like to know the answer to that too. Thoughts anyone?

I think he meant 0043. On 0043, you have to write lesson plans and answer questions about how you would teach a work of literature, which you choose from a list provided. The 0041 test is (or at least was) multiple choice and has many authors, genres, and writings on it.

[TeacherGroupie]

Originally Posted by ksatcher

I have my under grad in BA also and I am teaching secondary english but have to pass 0041 before january or I do not have a job next year. I have taken it once and i missed it by like 7 points. Any advice on what to study?

Praxis official score reports used to give a breakdown of test results by domain, in order to help retakers get a sense of where they did well and where to focus. If the score report doesn't give you that information, use the outline of the content tested in the Test at a Glance doc as a checklist: any technical term or concept that you don't already know cold is worth at least looking up on the Internet.

[TeacherGroupie]

The Tests at a Glance doc for any Praxis exam, or the information on its preparation page, will always begin with a breakdown of the test into domains, duration, and types of questions.

0041/5041 is strictly and solely multiple choice: 120 questions, 120 minutes.

55% of questions are on literature and literary analysis; there will certainly be questions for which the test taker needs a broad acquaintance with literary movements and periods, but one generally doesn't need a deep knowledge, and I'd expect more questions to focus on analysis. Know the figures of speech.

15% of questions are on language and linguistics; know parts of speech well enough that you can tell not only whether "fallen" in "the fallen tree" is a verb but how one knows, brush up on the sorts of conventions that Praxis I tests, and be prepared to name the major divisions in the history of English.

30% of questions are on composition and rhetoric. Think about how information can be packed into a passage, how it can be extracted, and how one might teach a student either to compose or to, um, decompose a text.

[leigha41]

Thanks for clearing that up. I was going to try for 0049 to get into VA Career switchers, but then felt that 0041 would be a better fit. I love this site.

[TeacherGroupie]

The Internet is a huge and wonderful resource. Use it!

Since you've indicated that your background is not in literature, I'd urge you to prepare for more than the test specifies - for the highly practical reason that, once you're anywhere near the classroom, you have to know more than the test specifies in order to meet your students' needs adequately.

[leigha41]

Originally Posted by TeacherGroupie

The Internet is a huge and wonderful resource. Use it!

Since you've indicated that your background is not in literature, I'd urge you to prepare for more than the test specifies - for the highly practical reason that, once you're anywhere near the classroom, you have to know more than the test specifies in order to meet your students' needs adequately.

I am trying to fucus on American Literature. I am understanding the movements and how they helped to shape our country. I have not started on English Lit, and at best will only have a vague handle on it. What other areas should I really focus and pinpoint here?

[leigha41]

Originally Posted by TeacherGroupie

The Internet is a huge and wonderful resource. Use it!

Since you've indicated that your background is not in literature, I'd urge you to prepare for more than the test specifies - for the highly practical reason that, once you're anywhere near the classroom, you have to know more than the test specifies in order to meet your students' needs adequately.

Also, I could hold off and take the test. I could take some Lit classes first at the community college. Would that better prepare me for what I am in for in the class room? Ultimately, when I endorse in English, it is only to get my foot into the door of the Career Switchers program. I would like to move on from that to teach women general education skills who are incarcerated. What are your thoughts? I majored in Recreation and Leisure studies in college. Although I started in Education all those years ago, I made a wrong turn. Now at 48, I would like to go back. I cannot afford to go and get my Graduates degree, and even if I did, I would still have to deal with Praxis in order to get Licensure. My initial plan is to get into the program, get initial licesure for English, and then move on from there.

[TeacherGroupie]

I don't know how people go about becoming teachers to the incarcerated, so I can't really speak to questions about that. What I do know about the odd collection of things I've learned over the years is that just about everything I've ever learned has come in handy in at least one teaching situation.

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