| AEPA tests provide a means of ascertaining | | | | However, when a candidate is to teach technical |
| someone's qualification in his or her given area of | | | | education and career courses, there is no requirement |
| specialty. An administrator or a teacher needs to | | | | to take subject matter exams. Administrators too |
| prove his or her sound grasp of a given subject in | | | | have AEPA tests that certify them to work in the |
| order to receive the AEPA certification. In addition, the | | | | State of Arizona. The exams for administrators only |
| person will show capability of imparting that knowledge | | | | require a relevant administrator test, be it principal, |
| to others appropriately. | | | | superintendent, or supervisor test. |
| The AEPA tests are therefore divided into different | | | | AEPA tests are graded from 100 to 300 points and a |
| categories, depending on subject knowledge, | | | | candidate must score a minimum of 240 points in |
| professional knowledge, and grade levels. For example, | | | | order to qualify. The scores are graded either as 'pass' |
| those who expect to teach preschool pupils have to | | | | or 'fail'. |
| pass tests for both early childhood education subject | | | | It is advisable to make use of relevant exam |
| knowledge and early childhood professional | | | | preparation materials to ensure one's success. There |
| knowledge. This is important due to the fact that | | | | are many AEPA study guides available both online and |
| preschool classrooms are not separated into subject | | | | offline. Your study tools should be comprehensive |
| specialty. It is therefore necessary that teachers prove | | | | enough to cover all relevant areas of the AEPA |
| their knowledge of all subjects, which they will have to | | | | exam. The official AEPA web site will offer you useful |
| teach. Those intending to teach grade K-8 must pass | | | | study guides, including practice questions that prepare |
| the elementary education subject knowledge and | | | | you for the real exam. The web site also gives dates |
| elementary professional knowledge tests, which also | | | | for respective exams. It is therefore important to visit |
| test their knowledge of all subjects. | | | | the web site in your preparation to take an AEPA |
| On the other side, for one to be certified as a | | | | certification test. |
| secondary school teacher, the tests covering subjects | | | | There are also other study guides that you may be |
| are divided into different topics in line with what a | | | | able to download from a variety of web sites. You will |
| candidate expects to teach. This is in addition to | | | | be able to get a good grasp of what to expect in the |
| passing the secondary professional knowledge test. | | | | exam, including some questions to expect and how |
| This therefore means that a candidate will be required | | | | they are set. It should not be difficult to manage an |
| to take various tests in order to be certified to teach | | | | AEPA certification test since you will have already |
| different subjects. | | | | passed through relevant higher institutions of learning. |