I.
Child Development and Pedagogy Syllabus- 30 Questions
This topic is common in Paper-1 and Paper-2 which is compulsory to be
attempted. Through this section, the candidate's knowledge about Child
development and Concept of Inclusive education will be covered. Go
through the topics below to understand the syllabus clearly.
a) Child Development (Elementary School Child): 15 Questions
1) Concept of development and its relationship with learning
2) Principles of the development of children
3) Influence of Heredity & Environment
4)Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents,
Peers)
5) Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
6)Concepts of child-centred and progressive education
7) Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
8)Multi-Dimensional Intelligence
9)Language & Thought
10) Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender-bias and
educational practice
11)Individual differences among learners, understanding differences
based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion etc.
12) The distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment
of learning; School-Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive
Evaluation: perspective and practice
13) 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
1) Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including
disadvantaged and deprived
2) Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties,
‘impairment’ etc.
3) Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners
c) Learning and Pedagogy: 10 Questions
1) How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve
success in school performance.
2) Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of
learning; learning as a social activity; social context of learning.
3) Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’
4)Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding
children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning process.
5) Cognition & Emotions
6)Motivation and learning
7) Factors contributing to learning – personal & environmental
II. Language I Syllabus- 30 Questions
To test the candidate's knowledge in the language they have opted there will
be 30 questions in the CTET Paper-I and Paper-II.
a) Language Comprehension: 15 Questions
1) Reading unseen passages – two passages one prose or drama and one
poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and
verbal ability.
b) Pedagogy of Language Development: 15 Questions
1) Learning and acquisition
2) Principles of language Teaching
3) Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children
use it as a tool
4)A 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
5) Language Skills
6)Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking,
listening, reading and writing
7) Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials,
multilingual resources of the classroom
8)Remedial Teaching
III. Language II Syllabus- 30 Questions
The second language test will be for accessing the candidate's knowledge of
the English language. There will be 30 questions in the CTET Paper I and
Paper-II.
a) Comprehension: 15 Questions
1) Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or
scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar and verbal
ability
b) Pedagogy of Language Development: 15 Questions
1) Learning and acquisition
2) Principles of language Teaching
3) Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children
use it as a tool
4)A 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
5) Language Skills
6) Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking,
listening, reading and writing
7) Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials,
multilingual resource of the classroom
8)Remedial Teaching
IV. (A) Mathematics and Science Syllabus- 60 Questions
The candidates can check the topics to be covered in the Mathematics and
Science section. The questions of Maths should be attempted with tricks
and accuracy. There will be 30 questions from Maths and 30 from Science
subjects.
(i) Mathematics: 30 Questions
a) Content: 20 Questions
• Number System
• Knowing our Numbers
• Playing with Numbers
• Whole Numbers
• Negative Numbers and Integers
• Fractions
• Algebra
• Introduction to Algebra
• Ratio and Proportion
• Geometry
• Basic geometrical ideas (2-D)
• Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D)
• Symmetry: (reflection)
• Construction (using Straight edge Scale, protractor, compasses)
• Mensuration
• Data handling
b) Pedagogical issues: 10 Questions
• Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking
• Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
• Language of Mathematics
• Community Mathematics
• Evaluation
• Remedial Teaching
• Problem of Teaching
(ii) Science: 30 Questions
a) Content: 20 Questions
I. Food
• Sources of food
• Components of food
• Cleaning food
II. Materials
• Materials of daily use
III. The World of the Living
IV. Moving Things People and Ideas
V. How things work
• Electric current and circuits
• Magnets
VI. Natural Phenomena
VII. Natural Resources
b) Pedagogical issues: 10 Questions
• Nature & Structure of Sciences
• Natural Science/Aims & objectives
• Understanding & Appreciating Science
• Approaches/Integrated Approach
• Observation/Experiment/Discovery (Method of Science)
• Innovation
• Text Material/Aids
• Evaluation – cognitive/psychomotor/affective
• Problems
• Remedial Teaching
