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I. Child Development
and Pedagogy
a) Child Development
· 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
· ritical 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.
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
a) Comprehension
Two unseen prose
passages (discursive or literary or narrative or
scientific) with
question on comprehension, grammar and verbal
ability
b) Pedagogy of Language
Development
· 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
· Geometry
· Shapes & Spatial
Understanding
· Solids around Us
· Numbers
· Addition and
Subtraction
· Multiplication
· Division
· Measurement
· Weight
· Time
· Volume
· Data Handling
· Patterns
· Money
b) Pedagogical issues
V. Environmental
a) Content
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
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e refer to NCERT syllabus and textbooks
