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Friday, 9 March 2012

CTET SYLLABUS


Syllabus for paper I


Paper I consists of five sections
1.      Child Development and Pedagogy
2.      Mathematics
3.      Environmental studies
4.      Language I
5.      Language II
1. CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PEDAGOGY
THIS section contains 30 questions.
A.     CHILD DEVELOPMENT
15 question will be asked from this section. Concept to included in this section are:
o   Concept of development and its relationship with learning
o   Principles of the development of children
o   Influence of Heredity & Environment
o   Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)
o   Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
o   Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
o   Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
o   Multi Dimensional Intelligence
o   Language & Thought
o   Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender-bias and educational practice
o   Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of
o   Language, caste, gender, community, religion etc.
o   Distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-
o   Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice
o   Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; for
o   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 will be asked from this section. Concept  included in this section are:

o    Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
o    Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc
o    Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners

C.     LEARNING AND PEDAGOGY
10 questions will be asked from this section. Topics included in this section are:

o   How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in  school performance.
o   Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning.
o   Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’
o   Alternative conceptions of learning in children; understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning process.
o   Cognition & Emotions
o   Motivation and learning
o   Factors contributing to learning- personal & environmental

2. MATHEMATICS
 This section will contain 30 questions.
      A)GENERAL MATHEMATICS
This section consists of 15 question and topic are:
• Geometry
• Shapes & Spatial Understanding
• Solids around Us
• Numbers
• Addition and Subtraction
• Multiplication
• Division
• Measurement
• Weight
• Time
• Volume
• Data Handling
• Patterns
• Money
.   B)  PEDOLOGICAL ISSUE
• 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


3. ENVIROMENTAL ISSUES:

A) CORE CONCEPT
 15 Questions will be asked from this section. And topics are
·         Family and Friends:( Relationships, work and play, animals and plants)
·         Food
·         Shelter
·         Water
·         Travel
·         Things We Make and Do
B) PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES
15 Questions will be asked from this section:
• 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
• Problems


4. LANGUAGE I AND LANGUAGE II

As language section will check your basic understanding and pedagogical issues so both have same syllabus:
            A) LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION

15 Questions will be asked from this section and it contains two unseen 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 will be asked from this section and topics are:
• 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.

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