FTCE Music Test

The FTCE Music K-12 Exam tests your ability to demonstrate knowledge in several core competencies and skills. Competencies are defined as areas of content knowledge, with skills as the behaviors that demonstrate these competencies. Together, the competencies and skills represent the knowledge that content specialists have deemed important for beginning music teachers. Additionally, each competency is assigned a percentage for scoring. Each percentage reflects the approximate proportion of test items in that content area on the test.

This exam encompasses seven core competencies, each with between four and nine skill areas. The competencies are: (1) knowledge of music theory, history, and literature; (2) curricula and instructional planning; (3) instructional and assessment procedures; (4) professional and instructional resources; (5) instructional emphasis?choral; (6) instructional emphasis?instrumental; and (7) instructional emphasis?general music.

The FTCE Music K-12 Exam has approximately 105 multiple-choice questions. Some questions are based on recorded passages. The listening portions make up 20 percent of the exam and may require you to compare a recorded performance and its notation in order to identify a musical problem associated with intonation, balance, tempo, or phrasing, or to identify basic musical elements.

Question formats include identification, sequence-listening, direct questions, commands, sentence completion, analysis, and sequences. Each question will contain four response options (A, B, C, or D). You will receive a test booklet and a separate answer sheet on which to bubble in your response to each question.

FTCE Music Test

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