FTCE Spanish K-12 study materials
FTCE Spanish K-12 study resources

FTCE Spanish K-12 case studies

FTCE Spanish K-12 · Put your knowledge to work in context.

Spanish K–12 (039) is one of the subject-area certification tests listed in the FTCE/FELE testing program, the Florida teacher certification examination system whose registration and score services are run through the fl.nesinc.com site. Candidates who want to teach Spanish in Florida's K–12 public schools typically take it as part of the state's certification process; the test appears on the program's test-selection menu alongside other world-language and subject exams. Because the official program description and test information guide are not reproduced here, treat this page as a study hub rather than a substitute for the published competencies. Study content is organized around four equally weighted areas: language and linguistics, interpretive listening and reading, presentational speaking and writing, and culture and professional knowledge. The FTCE Spanish K-12 case studies are 5 cases and about 2,964 words.

1

Heritage-Speaker Error Patterns in Fourth Grade

Rojas teaches fourth-grade Spanish language arts in a 50/50 dual-language school. Her class has 26 students: 11 heritage speakers of Spanish and 15 second-language learners.

492 words, about 2 min
2

Listening Assessment: Literal Success, Inference Failure

Alcázar's eighth-grade Spanish 1B class has 22 students, including 7 with IEPs and 3 newcomers who have been in the country less than a year. He uses a 2:40 podcast interview recorded by a speaker from coastal Colombia at about 145 words per minute.

637 words, about 3 min
3

Two-Minute Cultural Comparison: Score or Re-Teach?

Vidal teaches Spanish III to 24 tenth graders. For the first presentational-speaking benchmark, students have four minutes to prepare and two minutes to record a cultural comparison explaining how a celebration in a Spanish-speaking community compares with one in their own community.

593 words, about 3 min
4

Day of the Dead Altar and a Parent Objection

At a K-8 charter school, Mr. Salas plans a three-day fifth-grade unit on Día de los Muertos.

634 words, about 3 min
5

Newcomer With Strong Oral Spanish, Weak Literacy

A 14-year-old student, Daniel, enrolls in ninth grade in Florida in October. He attended school in rural Honduras through sixth grade, then missed about two years while working.

608 words, about 3 min