The Competencies and Skills Required for Teacher Certification in Florida is a publication produced by the Florida Department of Education. It includes a comprehensive listing of the State’s requirements for demonstrating competency and knowledge in the areas of Professional Education, General Knowledge, and the subject areas listed below. The thirteenth edition contains the competencies and skills approved by the State Board of Education in Spring 2008.

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For additional information regarding registration bulletins, test dates, fees, and procedures, please refer to the FTCE/FELE Program Web site.

If you have questions regarding your statement of status of eligibility or general certification issues, please contact the Florida Department of Education's Bureau of Educator Certification at Educator Certification

A hard copy of the Competencies and Skills, Thirteenth Edition, can be found at universities and colleges in the library or the College of Education beginning in late Summer 2008.

The competencies and skills are available on the Internet in Adobe.pdf format and require the Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or above to view them.

• Professional Education (PDF, )
• Agriculture 6–12 (PDF, )
• Art K–12 (PDF, )
• Biology 6–12 (PDF, )
• Business Education 6–12 (PDF, )
• Chemistry 6–12 (PDF, )
• Computer Science K–12 (PDF, )
• Drama 6–12 (PDF, )
• Earth-Space Science K–12 (PDF, )
• Educational Media Specialist PK–12 (PDF, )
• Elementary Education K–6 (PDF, )
• English 6–12 (PDF, )
• ESOL K–12 (PDF, )
• Exceptional Student Education K–12 (PDF, )
• Family and Consumer Science 6–12 (PDF, )
• French K–12 (PDF, )
• General Knowledge K–12 (PDF, )
• German K–12 (PDF, )
• Guidance and Counseling PK–12 (PDF, )
• Health K–12 (PDF, )
• Hearing Impaired K–12 (PDF, )
• Humanities K–12 (PDF, )
• Journalism 6–12 (PDF, )

• Latin K–12 (PDF, )
• Marketing 6–12 (PDF, )
• Mathematics 6–12 (PDF, )
• Middle Grades English 5–9 (PDF, )
• Middle Grades General Science 5–9 (PDF, )
• Middle Grades Integrated Curriculum 5–9 (PDF, )
• Middle Grades Mathematics 5–9 (PDF, )
• Middle Grades Social Science 5–9 (PDF, )
• Music K–12 (PDF, )
• Physical Education K–12 (PDF, )
• Physics 6–12 (PDF, )
• Prekindergarten/Primary PK–3 (PDF, )
• Preschool Education (Birth–Age 4) (PDF, )
• Reading K–12 (PDF, )
• School Psychologist PK–12 (PDF, )
• Social Science 6–12 (PDF, )
• Spanish K–12 (PDF, )
• Speech 6–12 (PDF, )
• Speech-Language Impaired K–12 (PDF, )
• Technology Education 6–12 (PDF, )
• Visually Impaired K–12 (PDF, )

Draft Competencies and Skills: Fourteenth Edition

General Information

In Spring 2009, the State Board of Education will review the following draft competencies and skills for 12 subject areas. If approved, the draft competencies and skills will be implemented on examinations administered beginning Summer 2009 and printed in the Competencies and Skills Required for Teacher Certification in Florida, Fourteenth Edition.

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