Child Development and Pedagogy (30 Question)

✅ Child Development(Elementary School Child) (15 Question)

• 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 (5 Question)

• Addressing learners from diverse back grounds including disadvantaged and deprived
• Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, “impairment‟ etc.
• Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners

✅ Learning and Pedagogy (10 Question)

• 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 solve rand 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

Mathematics and Science (60 Question)

Mathematics (30 Question)

✅ 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-Dand3-D)
• Symmetry:(reflection)
• Construction(using Straight edge Scale, protractor, compasses)
• Mensuration
• Data handling

✅ Pedagogical issues

• Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking
• Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
• Language of Mathematics
• Community Mathematics
• Evaluation
• Remedial Teaching
• Problem of Teaching

Science (30 Question)

✅ Food

• Sources of food
• Components of food
• Cleaning food

✅ Materials

• Materials of daily use

✅ The World of the Living
✅ Moving Things People and Ideas
✅ How things work

• Electric current and circuits
• Magnets

✅Natural Phenomena
✅Natural Resources

✅Pedagogical issues (10 Question)

• 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/psycho-motor/affective
• Problems
• Remedial Teaching

Social Studies/Social Sciences (60 Question)

Content (40 Question)

 ✅ History

• When, Where and How
• The Earliest Societies
• The First Farmers and Herders
• The First Cities
• Early States
• New Ideas
• the first Empire
• Contacts with Distant lands
• Political Developments
• Culture and Science
• New Kings andKingdoms
• Sultans of Delhi • Architecture
• Creation of an Empire
• Social Change
• Regional Cultures
• The Establishment of Company Power • Rural Life and Society
• Colonialism and Tribal Societies
• The Revolt of 1857-58
• Women and reform
• Challenging the Caste System
• The Nationalist Movement • India After Independence

Youtube Channel List

✅ 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 (20 Question)

• Concept & Nature of Social Science/Social Studies
• Class Room Processes, activities and discourse
• Developing Critical thinking
• Enquiry/Empirical Evidence
• Problems of teaching Social Science/Social Studies
• Sources- Primary & Secondary
• Projects Work
• Evaluation

Language - I (30 Question)

✅ Language Comprehension (15 Question)

• 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) 

✅ Pedagogy of Language Development (15 Question)

• 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,multi lingual resource of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

Language - II (30 Question)

✅ Comprehension (15 Question)

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

✅ Pedagogy of Language Development (15 Question)

• 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, multi lingual resource of the classroom
• Remedial Teaching

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Note: For Detailed syllabus of classes l-VIII, please refer to NCERT syllabus and text books

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