SYLLABUS
For Primary TET 2015 and Onwards
Child
Development and Pedagogy 30 Questions
a) Child Development (Primary School
Child) 15 Questions
· Concept
of development and its relationship with learning
· Principles
of the development of children
· Influence
of Heredity & Environment
· Socialization
processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents,
Peers)
· Piaget,
Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical
perspectives
· Concepts
of child-centered and progressive education
· Critical
perspective of the construct of Intelligence
· Multi
Dimensional Intelligence
· Language
& Thought
· Gender
as a social construct; gender roles, gender-bias and
educational
practice
· Individual
differences among learners, understanding differences
based on
diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion
etc.
· Distinction
between Assessment for learning and assessment of
learning;
School-Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective
and practice
· Formulating
appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels
of
learners; for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the
classroom
and for assessing learner achievement.
b) Concept of Inclusive education
and understanding children with
special
needs 5 Questions
· Addressing
learners from diverse backgrounds including
disadvantaged
and deprived
· Addressing
the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc.
· Addressing
the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners
C)Learning
and Pedagogy 10 Questions
· How
children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in
school performance.
· Basic
processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of
learning;
learning as a social activity; social context of learning.
· Child as
a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’
· Alternative
conceptions of learning in children, understanding children’s ‘errors’ as
significant steps in the learning process.
· Cognition
& Emotions
· Motivation
and learning
· Factors
contributing to learning–personal & environmental
II. Language
I. 30 Questions
a)Language
Comprehension 15 Questions
Reading
unseen passages – two passages one prose or drama and one poem with questions
on comprehension, inference,
grammar and
verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative or
discursive)
b)Pedagogy
of Language Development 15 Questions
· Learning
and acquisition
· Principles
of language Teaching
· Role of
listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
· Critical
perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas
verbally and in written form
· Challenges
of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and
disorders
· Language
Skills
· Evaluating
language comprehension and proficiency: speaking,
listening,
reading and writing
· Teaching-learning
materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the
classroom
· Remedial
Teaching
III. Language
– II 30 Questions
a) Comprehension 15 Questions
Two
unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with
question on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability
b)
Pedagogy of Language Development 15 Questions
- · Learning and acquisition
- · Principles of language Teaching
- · Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
- · Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form;
- · Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders
- · Language Skills
- · Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
- · Teaching – learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
- · Remedial Teaching
IV.
Mathematics 30 Questions
a)
Content 15 Questions
- · Geometry
- · Shapes & Spatial Understanding
- · Solids around Us
- · Numbers
- · Addition and Subtraction
- · Multiplication
- · Division
- · Measurement
- · Weight
- · Time
- · Volume
- · Data Handling
- · Patterns
- · Money
b)
Pedagogical issues 15 Questions
- · Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking; understanding children’s thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies of making meaning and learning
- · Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
- · Language of Mathematics
- · Community Mathematics
- · Evaluation through formal and informal methods
- · Problems of Teaching
- · Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching
- · Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching
V.
Environmental Studies 30 Questions
a)
Content 15 Questions
I. Family
and Friends:
1.1
Relationships
1.2 Work
and Play
1.3
Animals
1.4
Plants
II. Food
III.
Shelter
IV. Water
V. Travel
VI.
Things We Make and Do
b)
Pedagogical Issues 15 Questions
- · Concept and scope of EVS
- · Significance of EVS, integrated EVS
- · Environmental Studies & Environmental Education
- · Learning Principles
- · Scope & relation to Science & Social Science
- · Approaches of presenting concepts
- · Activities
- · Experimentation/Practical Work
- · Discussion
- · CCE
- · Teaching material/Aids
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