Syllabus For Primary Stage
(a) Child Development (Primary School Child) – 15 Questions
- Language & Thought
- Socialization processes
- Multi-Dimensional Intelligence
- Piaget, Kohlberg, and Vygotsky
- Influence of Heredity & Environment
- Principles of the development of children
- Concept of development and its relationship
- Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
- Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
- School-Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation
- Difference between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning
- Gender as a social construct – gender roles, gender-bias and educational practice
- Individual differences among learners – to understand differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion, etc.
- Formulating suitable questions for assessing the readiness levels of learners and for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and evaluating learner achievement.
(b) CTET Child Development and Pedagogy Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs – 5 Questions
- Addressing the Talented, Creative, Especially abled Students
- Addressing the needs of children with learning complications, impairment, etc.
- Addressing learners from varied backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
(c) CTET Child Development and Pedagogy Learning and Pedagogy – pedagogic content knowledge 5 Questions
- Cognition & Emotions
- Motivation and learning
- Child as a problem solver and a scientific investigator
- Factors contributing to learning – personal & environmental
- How children contemplate and learn and how and why children fail to attain triumph in school performance.
- Alternative conceptions of learning in children, and understanding children’s errors as important steps in the education process.
- Basic processes of teaching and learning along with children’s strategies of learning, learning as a social activity, and social context of learning.
Syllabus For Elementary Stage
(a) CTET Child Development (Class 5- Class 8 Childs) Key Topics – 15 Questions
- Multi-Dimensional Intelligence
- Influence of Heredity & Environment
- Principles of Development of Children
- Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
- Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
- Concept Development and its Relationship with learning
- Piaget, Kohlberg, and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
- Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)
- Language & Though 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
- The 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
(b) Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs – 5 Questions
- Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners
- Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’
- Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
(c) Learning and Pedagogy 10 Questions
- Cognition & Emotions
- Motivation and learning
- Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’
- How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school performance.
- Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning
- Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social activity.
