The PRAXIS II Teaching Foundations: Multiple Subjects Exam is taken by candidates interested in teaching multiple subjects across a wide range of class levels in California. The exam is made up of 50 multiple choice questions and four written response questions. The multiple choice questions are weighted at 33% of the total score; the four written response questions collectively compose the remaining 67%. Written response questions cover teaching methodology for science, mathematics, social sciences, and English. 30 multiple choice questions cover classroom management, student assessment, and human development; and 20 multiple-choice questions cover special needs, learning differences, and English Language learners.
The Teaching Methodology for Science, Mathematics, Social Sciences and English section of the exam covers student progress before, during, and after instruction; reading skills; instructional modification for special needs students; resources; instructional strategies and activities for classroom learning.
The Classroom Management Science, Mathematics, Social Sciences and English section of the exam covers strategies to maximize instructional time, student discipline plans, expectations for student's social and academic behavior, communicating with student and family members, maximizing academic accomplishments through social environments, and methods to encourage participation from all students.
The Student Assessment Science, Mathematics, Social Sciences and English section of the exam covers informal and formal student assessments, student behavioral and academic strengths, interpretation of student assessments, instructional modification, and the purposes of various types of student assessments.
The Special Needs and Learning Differences Science, Mathematics, Social Sciences and English section of the exam covers instructional strategies for special needs students, the impact of student's health on learning and behavior, learning styles, cultural expectations, and gender differences, learning disabilities, behavioral and emotional disabilities, mental retardation, talented and gifted students, sensory, medical and physical challenges, and visual and perceptual challenges of the exceptional student.
The Human Development Science; Mathematics; Social Sciences and English section of the exam covers social, emotional, physical, moral, cognitive, and physical development; academic challenges; abstract thinking skills; and instructional activities necessary for life after high school graduation.