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Praxis 5302 · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Foundations and Professional Knowledge (placeholder - not confirmed)

  • Define in your own words every key term on the official Domain 1 objective list, without looking at notes

  • Build a one-page concept map linking the major Domain 1 ideas to each other

  • Identify the three Domain 1 subtopics you understand least and rank them

  • Write five original example scenarios that illustrate Domain 1 concepts in a classroom setting

Your checkpoint

A one-page concept map plus a ranked list of your three weakest Domain 1 subtopics, saved for re-testing in Week 7

Week 2

Foundations and Professional Knowledge (placeholder - not confirmed) & Instructional Planning and Delivery (placeholder - not confirmed)

  • Answer 40 Domain 1 practice items untimed and log every miss with a written reason

  • Explain aloud, in under two minutes each, the five Domain 1 concepts you missed most often

  • Skim the full Domain 2 objective list and group its items under three headings you choose

  • Draft a study-notes page for Domain 2 using only your own paraphrases

Your checkpoint

A scored 40-item Domain 1 set with a written error log categorizing each miss as content gap, misreading, or guess

Week 3

Instructional Planning and Delivery (placeholder - not confirmed)

  • Sequence the Domain 2 decision cycle from intake to review, writing each step from memory

  • Compare and contrast two contrasting instructional approaches and state when each is appropriate

  • Convert three Domain 2 objectives into concrete classroom actions you could describe to a colleague

  • Self-quiz 25 Domain 2 terms with a flashcard deck until you reach 90% recall

Your checkpoint

A written, from-memory flowchart of the Domain 2 decision cycle plus a 25-term flashcard deck scored at 90% or better

Week 4

Instructional Planning and Delivery (placeholder - not confirmed) & Assessment and Data-Based Decision Making (placeholder - not confirmed)

  • Complete 50 mixed Domain 1-2 items in 60 timed minutes and record your scaled score

  • Re-teach your three weakest concepts from Weeks 1-3 using only a blank sheet of paper

  • List every Domain 3 objective and mark each as known, shaky, or unknown

  • Read one Domain 3 subtopic closely and summarize it in five bullet points

Your checkpoint

A timed 50-item mixed score report with a one-paragraph written diagnosis of your two lowest-performing subtopics

Week 5

Assessment and Data-Based Decision Making (placeholder - not confirmed)

  • Interpret three sample score reports or data displays and write the instructional decision each implies

  • Distinguish screening, progress monitoring, and diagnostic uses of assessment and give an example of each

  • Explain how a team would use data to decide whether an intervention is working

  • Build a 30-term Domain 3 vocabulary list with definitions in your own words

Your checkpoint

Three written data-interpretation responses, each ending in a specific, defensible instructional decision

Week 6

Assessment and Data-Based Decision Making (placeholder - not confirmed) & Collaboration and Professional Practice (placeholder - not confirmed)

  • Answer 40 Domain 3 items untimed and log every miss with a written reason

  • Describe the roles and responsibilities of each member of a collaborative team

  • Outline the steps of a productive family or colleague conference, from opening to follow-up

  • Match five common collaboration pitfalls to a concrete repair strategy for each

Your checkpoint

A one-page collaboration protocol you could actually follow in a meeting, plus a scored 40-item Domain 3 set

Week 7

Foundations and Professional Knowledge (placeholder - not confirmed) & Collaboration and Professional Practice (placeholder - not confirmed)

  • Retake the ranked weak subtopics from Week 1 and confirm improvement or re-flag them

  • Complete 50 mixed Domain 3-4 items timed and record your score

  • Summarize each of the four domains on a single index card

  • Identify the two domains where your timed accuracy is still lowest and name the specific cause

Your checkpoint

Four index-card summaries plus a comparison of Week 4 and Week 7 timed scores showing per-domain change

Week 8

Foundations and Professional Knowledge (placeholder - not confirmed) & Instructional Planning and Delivery (placeholder - not confirmed) & Assessment and Data-Based Decision Making (placeholder - not confirmed) & Collaboration and Professional Practice (placeholder - not confirmed)

  • Take two full-length timed practice tests under exam conditions, scoring each

  • Review every missed item from both tests and rewrite the underlying rule in your own words

  • Re-drill only the flashcards and notes tied to your remaining error categories

  • Write a one-page test-day plan covering timing, pacing checkpoints, and guess strategy

Your checkpoint

Two scored full-length practice tests with a final error-analysis sheet and a written one-page test-day plan

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 75% on the untimed 40-item Domain 1 set and show an error log with a written reason for every miss

Week 4: Score at least 70% on the timed 50-item mixed Domain 1-2 set and correctly reproduce the Domain 2 decision cycle from memory

Week 6: Score at least 70% on the timed 40-item Domain 3 set and produce a collaboration protocol covering openings, roles, and follow-up

Week 8: Score at least 75% on both full-length timed practice tests, with no domain falling below 65%