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Child Development and Pedagogy (30 MCQs)

• Child Development (Elementary School Child)
  • 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
  • Critical 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.
• Concept of Inclusive Education and Understanding Children with Special Needs
  • 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
• Learning and Pedagogy
  • 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

Language I (Compulsory) (30 MCQs)

• Language Comprehension
  • Reading unseen passages (prose/poetry) with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative or discursive)
• 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

Language II (Compulsory) (30 MCQs)

• Comprehension
  • Two unseen prose passages (factual, discursive or literary) with questions on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability
• Pedagogy of Language Development
  • (Similar to Language I)

Mathematics and Science (60 MCQs for Math & Science teachers)

Mathematics Content:

• Number System: Knowing our Numbers, Playing with Numbers, Whole Numbers, Negative Numbers and Integers, Fractions
• Algebra: Introduction to Algebra, Ratio & Proportion, Symmetry, Practical Geometry
• Geometry: Basic geometrical ideas (2-D), Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D), Mensuration
• Data Handling: Pictograph, Bar graph, Data
• Pedagogical Issues: Nature of Mathematics, Place of Mathematics in Curriculum, Language of Mathematics, Community Mathematics, Evaluation, Remedial Teaching, Problem of Teaching.

Science Content:

• Food: Sources of food, Components of food, Cleaning food
• Materials: Materials of daily use, Grouping materials, Separation of substances, Changes around us
• The World of the Living: Getting to Know Plants, Body Movements, Living Organisms and their Surroundings, Reproduction in Animals, Reaching Age of Adolescence, Light, Shadow and Reflections, Electricity and Circuits, Fun with Magnets
• How Things Work: Electric current and circuits, Magnets
• Natural Phenomena: Lightning, Earthquakes
• Natural Resources: Air, Water, Forest
• Pedagogical Issues: Nature & Structure of Science, Natural Science/Aims & objectives, Understanding & Appreciating Science, Approaches, Integrated Science, Observation/Experiment/Discovery (Method of Science), Innovation, Text Material/Aids, Evaluation, Cognitive/Psychomotor, Problems, Remedial Teaching.

Social Studies/Social Sciences (60 MCQs for Social Studies teachers)

History:

• When, Where and How
• The Earliest Societies
• First Farmers and Herders
• First Cities
• Early States
• New Ideas
• First Empire
• Distant Lands and Cultures
• New Empires and Kingdoms
• Sultans of Delhi
• Architecture
• Creation of an Empire
• Social Change
• Regional Cultures
• 18th Century Political Formations

Geography:

• Geography as a social study and as a science
• Planet: Earth in the solar system
• Globe
• Environment in its totality: natural and human environment
• Air
• Water
• Human Environment: settlement, transport and communication
• Resources: Types – Natural and Human
• Agriculture

Social and Political Life:

• Diversity
• Government
• Local Government
• Making a Living
• Democracy
• State Government
• Understanding Media
• Unpacking Gender
• The Constitution
• Parliamentary Government
• The Judiciary
• Social Justice and the Marginalised

Pedagogical Issues (Social Studies):

• Concept & Nature of Social Science/Social Studies
• Classroom Processes, activities and discourse
• Developing Critical Thinking
• Enquiry/Empirical Evidence
• Problems of teaching Social Science/Social Studies
• Sources – Primary & Secondary
• Projects Work
• Evaluation