Visual Arts (Grades K–12) Subtest 2

For example:

• demonstrating knowledge of careers in the visual arts
• demonstrating knowledge of the importance of the arts to the individual, school, community, economy, and society
• demonstrating knowledge of the purposes and functions of art in society

For example:

• recognizing the historical foundations of art education and training in the visual arts
• demonstrating knowledge of philosophical and pedagogical influences within art education
• demonstrating knowledge of the goals and purposes of art education
• demonstrating knowledge of research regarding art education
• demonstrating understanding of the artistic and cognitive developmental levels within art education

For example:

• demonstrating knowledge of key components and processes involved in reading (e.g., vocabulary knowledge, including orthographic and morphological knowledge; background knowledge; knowledge of academic discourse, including the syntactic and organizational structures used in print and digital academic texts; print-processing abilities, including decoding skills; use of cognitive and metacognitive skills and strategies)
• demonstrating the ability to plan instruction and select strategies to support all students' content-area reading (e.g., differentiating instruction to meet the needs of students with varying reading proficiency levels and linguistic backgrounds, identifying and addressing gaps in students' background knowledge, scaffolding reading tasks for students who experience comprehension difficulties)
• demonstrating knowledge of explicit strategies for facilitating students' comprehension before, during, and after reading content-area texts and for promoting their use of comprehension strategies
• demonstrating knowledge of explicit strategies for promoting students' academic language and vocabulary development, including their knowledge of domain-specific vocabulary words
• demonstrating knowledge of key components and processes involved in reading and decoding images, including visual literacy skills and strategies