The Texas State Board for Educator Certification defines Standard VII as follows: 

Standard VII:  The desktop publishing teacher has the knowledge and skills needed to teach the Foundations, Information Acquisition, Work in Solving Problems, and Communication strands of the Technology Applications Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) in desktop publishing, in addition to the content described in Technology Applications Standards I–V.

The specific details for Standard VII - Desktop Publishing are broken down into four subsets, as follows:

Subsets Under Construction

1. Foundations

2. Information Acquisition

3. Work in Solving Problems

4. Communication