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A core special education exam guide for the ETS selected-response format, preschool-through-grade-12 learners, planning, instruction, assessment, legal foundations, collaboration, and professional responsibilities.
Praxis 5354 preparation should connect special education principles with practical classroom decisions: learner characteristics, accessible curriculum, effective instruction, assessment use, IEP processes, legal safeguards, and collaboration.
Use these ETS structure points to organize Special Education: Core Knowledge and Applications study before moving into applied school scenarios.
ETS lists Praxis 5354 as a computer-delivered selected-response exam.
The exam is 2 hours.
The current ETS study companion lists 120 selected-response questions.
Planning and the Learning Environment and Instruction are tied as the largest categories at 27 questions, or 23% each.
ETS describes Praxis 5354 as a special education exam for candidates planning to teach at any grade level from preschool through grade 12. Review should include development, disability characteristics, family systems, and school-age transitions.
Planning and Instruction together account for 46% of the exam. Practice lesson objectives, access to curriculum, classroom organization, behavior supports, evidence-based strategies, technology, communication, and generalization.
Assessment and foundations require applying formal and informal data, nondiscriminatory evaluation, IEP processes, IDEA, FAPE, LRE, confidentiality, collaboration, family communication, and ethical decision making.
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Praxis Special Education: Core Knowledge and Applications 5354 is designed for candidates who plan to teach in a special education program at any grade level from preschool through grade 12. ETS lists a computer-delivered, 2-hour exam with 120 selected-response questions. The questions assess basic principles of special education and the application of those principles to realistic classroom and service-delivery situations.
The current ETS study companion divides Praxis 5354 into five content categories: Development and Characteristics of Learners at 20 questions, or 16%; Planning and the Learning Environment at 27 questions, or 23%; Instruction at 27 questions, or 23%; Assessment at 22 questions, or 18%; and Foundations and Professional Responsibilities at 24 questions, or 20%. Preparation should connect disability characteristics, development, lesson design, accessible curriculum, classroom management, instructional strategies, formal and informal assessment, IEPs, IDEA, FAPE, LRE, collaboration, family communication, ethics, and professional practice.
ETS lists the exam as 2 hours.
The current ETS study companion lists 120 selected-response questions.
Planning and the Learning Environment and Instruction are tied as the largest categories at 27 questions, or 23% each.
ETS describes the exam as designed for candidates who plan to teach special education at any grade level from preschool through grade 12.
Study learner development and disability characteristics, planning, accessible instruction, classroom environment, assessment, IEPs, IDEA, FAPE, LRE, collaboration, ethics, and family communication.
Track learner characteristics, planning, instruction, assessment, and professional responsibilities separately so each section receives targeted review.
Use cases involving accommodations, modifications, behavior supports, lesson planning, disability characteristics, communication needs, and collaboration with general educators.
Study IDEA, FAPE, LRE, IEP, IFSP, and related terms through what a special education teacher should do in a school scenario.
Complete 120 selected-response questions in one sitting to test pacing across principles, applications, law, assessment, and instruction.
Use the guide to self-serve, or talk to a coordinator if you need help mapping timelines, official requirements, or troubleshooting day-of logistics.
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