Teacher Certification
CBEST, ExCET, LAST/ATS, NTE, NYSTCE, Praxis

Guides with reader recommendations are in bold.  Click here for State guides - CBEST, ExCET, LAST/ATS, NYSTCE.

Praxis sample tests for teacher certification.

Praxis test sign-up and requirements by State.

Interview tips and practice interviews for teachers/principals

Test guides - PSAT, SAT, AP and more for your students

Education practice interviews from job-interview.net

1. Assist. Dir., Childcare Center 

2. Principal

3. Preschool Teacher

4. Student Advisor

5. Teacher

GENERAL CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

1. How to Get the Teaching Job You Want: The Complete Guide for College Graduates, Teachers Changing Schools, Returning Teachers and Career Changers, Robert Feirsen, 2004

CERTIFICATION TEST STRATEGIES

1. Beating Them All! Thirty Days to a Magic Score on Any Elementary Literacy Instruction Exam for Teacher Certification, Chris Nicholas Boosalis, 2003 

2. Methods, Strategies, and Elementary Content for Beating AEPA, FTCE, ICTS, MSAT, MTEL, MTTC, NMTA, NYSTCE, OSAT, PLACE, PRAXIS, and TEXES, Chris Nicholas Boosalis, 2005 - RECOMMENDED

TEACHER INTERVIEW

1. Ace Your Teacher Interview: 149 Fantastic Answers to Tough Interview Question, Anthony Fredericks, 2012 - RECOMMENDED

2. Guide to Getting a Teaching Job

3. Principals' Interview Edge 

4. Teachers' Interview Edge 

5. Teacher Interviews: How to Get Them and How to Get Hired!, Robert Pollock, 2011 - RECOMMENDED

PRAXIS

1. The Praxis Series Official Guide (Official Guide to the Praxis), Educational Testing Service, 2009 - RECOMMENDED

2. Barron's How to Prepare for the Praxis with CD (6th Ed), Robert D. Postman, 2011 - RECOMMENDED

3. The Best Test Preparation for the PRAXIS I: PPST - Pre-Professional, 1998

4. Cliffs TestPrep Praxis II: Principles of Learning and Teaching, Cliffs, 2006

5. Cracking the Praxis II NTE, Princeton Review, 2003

6. Kaplan PRAXIS: 2008 Edition, Kaplan, 2008

7. McGraw-Hill's PRAXIS I and II, 2nd Ed., Laurie Rozakis, 2007 - RECOMMENDED

8. Praxis I: PPST (Cliffs Test Prep), Jerry Bobrow, 2001

9. Praxis 1 Ppst Pre-Professional Skills Tests, Research & Education Association, 1998

10. Prep for Praxis (Praxis I), Arco, 2007

11. Prep for Praxis (Praxis II), Arco, 2007

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION

1. Elementary Education: Content Knowledge Study Guide (Praxis Study Guides), Educational Testing Service, 2003

LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

1. French (NTE), 1997

2. NTE English Language & Literature Review : Practice & Review, Educational Testing Service, 1991

MIDDLE SCHOOL

1. Middle School Tests (Praxis Study Guides), Educational Testing Service, 2004

SCIENCE

1. Chemistry, Physics and General Science (NTE), Jack Rudman, 1997

2. General Science (NTE), 1997

3. Geography (NTE), Jack Rudman, 1997

4. NTE Biology & General Science : Practice & Review,  Educational Testing Service, 1992

5. NTE Specialty Area Examination in Environmental Education (NTE), 1997

SOCIAL STUDIES

1. Praxis II Social Studies High School, Jeanne Armistead, 2001

SPECIALTY

1. Home Economics Education (NTE), Jack Rudman, 1997

2. How to Prepare for the Praxis Examination in Audiology, Kay T., Ph.D. Payne, 2000

3. How to Prepare for the Praxis Examination in Speech-Language Pathology, Kay T., Ph.D. Payne, 2000

4. NTE Programs Elementary Education : A Guide to the Education in the Elementary School Specialty Area Test, Educational Testing Service, 1989

5. NTE Speech-Language Pathology : Practice & Review (Praxis Series), Educational Testing Service, 1995

6. Physical Education: Test Preparation Study Guide (NTE), Jack Rudman, 1999