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CTET-2011

STRUCTURE AND CONTENT OF SYLLABUS

(Paper I and Paper II)

Paper I (for classes I to V) Primary Stage

I. Child Development and Pedagogy 30 Questions

b. Child Development (Primary School Child) 15 Questions

3. Concept of development and its relationship with learning

4. Principles of the development of children

5. Influence of Heredity & Environment

6. Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)

7. Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives

8. Concepts of child-centered and progressive education

9. Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence

10. Multi Dimensional Intelligence

11. Language & Thought

12. Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender-bias and educational practice

13. Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion etc.

14. Distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice

15. Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement.

a. Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs 5 Questions

2. Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived

3. Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc

4. Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners

a. Learning and Pedagogy 10 Questions

2. How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school performance

3. Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning.

4. Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’

5. Alternative conceptions of learning in children; understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning process.

6. Cognition & Emotions

7. Motivation and learning

8. Factors contributing to learning- personal & environmental

I. 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)

a. Pedagogy of Language Development 15 Questions

2. Learning and acquisition

3. Principles of language Teaching

4. Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool

5. Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form

6. Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders

7. Language Skills

8. Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing

9. Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom

10. Remedial Teaching

I. Language- II 30 Questions

a. Comprehension 15 Questions

Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability

a. Pedagogy of Language Development 15Questions

2. Learning and acquisition

3. Principles of language Teaching

4. Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool

5. Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form;

6. Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders

7. Language Skills

8. Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing

9. Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom

10. Remedial Teaching

I. Mathematics 30 Questions

b. Content 15 Questions

3. Geometry

4. Shapes & Spatial Understanding

5. Solids around Us

6. Numbers

7. Addition and Subtraction

8. Multiplication

9. Division

10. Measurement

11. Weight

12. Time

13. Volume

14. Data Handling

15. Patterns

16. Money

a. Pedagogical issues 15 Questions

2. Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking; understanding children’s thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies of making meaning and learning

3. Place of Mathematics in Curriculum

4. Language of Mathematics

5. Community Mathematics

6. Evaluation through formal and informal methods

7. Problems of Teaching

8. Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching

9. Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching

I. Environmental Studies 30 Questions

a. Content 15 Questions

1. Family and Friends:

1.1 Relationships;

1.2 Work and Play;

1.3 Animals;

4. Plants

2. Food

3. Shelter

4. Water

5. Travel

6. Things We Make and Do

a. Pedagogical Issues 15 Questions

2. Concept and scope of EVS

3. Significance of EVS, integrated EVS

4. Environmental Studies & Environmental Education

5. learning Principles

6. Scope & relation to Science & Social Science

7. Approaches of presenting concepts

8. Activities

9. Experimentation/Practical Work

10. Discussion

11. CCE

12. Teaching material/Aids

13. Problems

Paper II (for classes VI to VIII) Elementary Stage

I. Child Development and Pedagogy 30 Questions

a. Child Development (Elementary School Child) 15 Questions

2. Concept of development and its relationship with learning

3. Principles of the development of children

4. Influence of Heredity & Environment

5. Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)

6. Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives

7. Concepts of child-centered and progressive education

8. Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence

9. Multi Dimensional Intelligence

10. Language & Thought

11. Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender-bias and educational practice

12. Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion etc.

13. Distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice

14. Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement.

a. Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs 5 Questions

2. Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived

3. Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc

4. Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners

a. Learning and Pedagogy 10 Questions

2. How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school performance

3. Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning.

4. Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’

5. Alternative conceptions of learning in children; understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning process.

6. Cognition & Emotions

7. Motivation and learning

8. Factors contributing to learning- personal & environmental

I. 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)

a. Pedagogy of Language Development 15 Questions

2. Learning and acquisition

3. Principles of language Teaching

4. Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool

5. Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form;

6. Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders

7. Language Skills

8. Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing

9. Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom

10. Remedial Teaching

I. Language- II 30 Questions

a. Comprehension 15 Questions

Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability

a. Pedagogy of Language Development 15Questions

2. Learning and acquisition

3. Principles of language Teaching

4. Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool

5. Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form;

6. Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders

7. Language Skills

8. Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing

9. Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom

10. Remedial Teaching

IV. (A) Mathematics and Science: 60 Questions

i. Mathematics 30 Questions

a. Content 20 Questions

2. Number System

3. Knowing our Numbers

4. Playing with Numbers

5. Whole Numbers

6. Negative Numbers and Integers

7. Fractions

8. Algebra

9. Introduction to Algebra

10. Ratio and Proportion

11. Geometry

12. Basic geometrical ideas (2-D)

13. Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D)

14. Symmetry: (reflection)

15. Constructions (using Straight edge Scale, protractor, compasses)

16. Mensuration

17. Data handling

a. Pedagogical issues 10 Questions

2. Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking

3. Place of Mathematics in Curriculum

4. Language of Mathematics

5. Community Mathematics

6. Evaluation

7. Remedial Teaching

8. Problems of Teaching

(ii) Science 30 Questions

a. Content 20 Questions

II. Food

3. Sources of food

4. Components of food

5. Cleaning food

VI. Materials

7. Materials of daily use

VIII. The World of the Living

IX. Moving Things People and Ideas

X. How things work

11. Electric current and circuits

12. Magnets

I. Natural Phenomena

II. Natural Resources

a. Pedagogical issues 10 Questions

2. Nature & Structure of Sciences

3. Natural Science/Aims & objectives

4. Understanding & Appreciating Science

5. Approaches/Integrated Approach

6. Observation/Experiment/Discovery(Method of Science)

7. Innovation

8. Text Material/Aids

9. Evaluation- cognitive/psychomotor/affective

10. Problems

11. Remedial Teaching

V. Social Studies/ Social Sciences 60 Questions

a) Content 40 Questions

i. History

2. When, Where and How

3. The Earliest Societies

4. The First Farmers and Herders

5. The First Cities

6. Early States

7. New Ideas

8. The First Empire

9. Contacts with Distant lands

10. Political Developments

11. Culture and Science

12. New Kings and Kingdoms

13. Sultans of Delhi

14. Architecture

15. Creation of an Empire

16. Social Change

17. Regional Cultures

18. The Establishment of Company Power

19. Rural Life and Society

20. Colonialism and Tribal Societies

21. The Revolt of 1857-58

22. Women and reform

23. Challenging the Caste System

24. The Nationalist Movement

25. India After Independence

i. Geography

2. Geography as a social study and as a science

3. Planet: Earth in the solar system

4. Globe

5. Environment in its totality: natural and human environment.

6. Air

7. Water

8. Human Environment: settlement, transport and communication.

9. Resources: Types- Natural and Human

10. Agriculture

i. Social and Political Life

2. Diversity

3. Government

4. Local Government

5. Making a Living

6. Democracy

7. State Government

8. Understanding Media

9. Unpacking Gender

10. The Constitution

11. Parliamentary Government

12. The Judiciary

13. Social Justice and the Marginalised

a. Pedagogical issues 20 Questions

2. Concept & Nature of Social Science/Social Studies

3. Class Room Processes, activities and discourse

4. Developing Critical thinking

5. Enquiry/Empirical Evidence

6. Problems of teaching Social Science/Social Studies

7. Sources – Primary & secondary

8. Projects Work

9. Evaluation

Note: For Detailed syllabus of classes I-VIII, please refer to NCERT syllabus and textbooks

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