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.
