The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is all set to conduct the Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) for the September 2014 session.
The candidates who wish to be a teacher for classes I to V will have to appear for Paper I from 2pm to 4:30pm and Paper II will be conducted for candidates who wish to be a teacher for classes VI to VIII from 9:30 pm to 12 noon.
CTET paper will be having multiple choice questions, wherein each question will carry four options, out of which one is to be chosen. For every correct answer, one mark will be awarded to the candidates. No negative marking is applicable, though.
Paper I: (Two and a half hours)
Child Development and Pedagogy: 30 MCQs
Language I: 30 MCQs
Language II: 30 MCQs
Mathematics: 30 MCQs
Environmental Studies: 30 MCQs
Language I: 30 MCQs
Language II: 30 MCQs
Mathematics: 30 MCQs
Environmental Studies: 30 MCQs
Syllabus:
I. Child Development and Pedagogy (30 Questions)
a) Child Development (Primary School Child) 15 Questions: Concept of development and its relationship with learning, Principles of the development of children, Influence of Heredity and Environment, Socialization processes: Social world and 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 and 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 and 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 and Emotions, Motivation and learning Factors contributing to learning - personal and environmental.
II. Language I (30 Questions)
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 (30 Questions)
a) Comprehension 15 Questions: Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with question on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability.
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.
IV. Mathematics (30 Questions)
a) Content 15 Questions: Geometry, Shapes and Spatial Understanding, Solids around Us, Numbers, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Measurement, Weight, Time, Volume, Data Handling, Patterns, Money.
b) Pedagogical issues 15 Questions: Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking; understanding children's thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies of making meaning and learning, Place of Mathematics in Curriculum, Language of Mathematics Community Mathematics, Evaluation through formal and informal methods, Problems of Teaching, Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching, Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching.
V. Environmental Studies (30 Questions)
a) Content 15 Questions: Family and Friends, Relationships, Work and Play, Animals, Plants, Food, Shelter, Water, Travel, Things We Make and Do
b) Pedagogical Issues 15 Questions: Concept and scope of EVS, Significance of EVS, integrated EVS, Environmental Studies and Environmental Education, Learning Principles, Scope and relation to Science and Social Science, Approaches of presenting concepts, Activities, Experimentation/Practical Work, Discussion, CCE, Teaching material/Aids, Problems.
Paper II: (Two and a half hours)
Child Development & Pedagogy (compulsory): 30 MCQs: 30 marks
Language I (compulsory): 30 MCQs: 30 marks
Language II (compulsory): 30 MCQs: 30 marks
(a) For Mathematics and Science teacher: 60 MCQs: 60 marks
Mathematics and Science
(b) For Social Studies/Social Science teacher: 60 MCQs: 60 marks
Social Science
(c) For any other teacher - either (a) or (b)
Language I (compulsory): 30 MCQs: 30 marks
Language II (compulsory): 30 MCQs: 30 marks
(a) For Mathematics and Science teacher: 60 MCQs: 60 marks
Mathematics and Science
(b) For Social Studies/Social Science teacher: 60 MCQs: 60 marks
Social Science
(c) For any other teacher - either (a) or (b)
I. Child Development and Pedagogy (30 Questions)
a) Child Development (Elementary School Child) 15 Questions: Concept of development and its relationship with learning, Principles of the development of children, Influence of Heredity and Environment, Socialization processes: Social world and 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 and 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 and 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, Especially 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 and Emotions, Motivation and learning, Factors contributing to learning - personal and environmental.
II. Language I (30 Questions)
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 (30 Questions)
a) Comprehension 15 Questions: Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with question on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability
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
IV. (A) Mathematics and Science: (60 Questions)
(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: 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,
b) Pedagogical issues 10 Questions: Nature and Structure of Sciences, Natural Science/Aims and objectives, Understanding and Appreciating Science, Approaches/Integrated Approach Observation/Experiment/Discovery (Method of Science), Innovation, Text Material/Aids, Evaluation - cognitive/psychomotor/affective, Problems, Remedial Teaching
Or
IV. (B) Social Studies/ Social Sciences: 60 Questions
a) Content 40 Questions
1. 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 and Kingdoms, 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
2. 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
3. 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
1. 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 and Kingdoms, 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
2. 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
3. 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
b) Pedagogical issues 20 Questions: Concept and 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 and Secondary, Projects Work Evaluation
Nature and Standard of Questions:
Paper I:
The test items on Child Development and Pedagogy will focus on educational psychology of teaching and learning relevant to the age group of 6-11 years.
They will focus on understanding the characteristics and needs of diverse learners, interaction with learners and the attributes and qualities of a good facilitator of learning.
The test items on Child Development and Pedagogy will focus on educational psychology of teaching and learning relevant to the age group of 6-11 years.
They will focus on understanding the characteristics and needs of diverse learners, interaction with learners and the attributes and qualities of a good facilitator of learning.
The test items in Language I will focus on the proficiencies related to the medium of instruction. The Test items in language II will focus on the elements of language, communication and comprehension abilities.
The test items in Mathematics and Environmental Studies will focus on the concepts, problem solving abilities and pedagogical understanding of the subjects. In all these subject areas, the test items will be evenly distributed over different divisions of the syllabus of that subject prescribed for classes I - V by the NCERT/ CBSE.
The questions in the test for Paper I will be based on the topics prescribed in syllabus of the NCERT/CBSE for classes I - V but their difficulty standard as well as linkages, could be up to the Secondary stage.
Paper II:
The test items on Child Development and Pedagogy will focus on educational psychology of teaching and learning, relevant to the age group of 11-14 years.
They will focus on understanding the characteristics, needs and psychology of diverse learners, interaction with learners and the attributes and qualities of a good facilitator of learning.
The test items on Child Development and Pedagogy will focus on educational psychology of teaching and learning, relevant to the age group of 11-14 years.
They will focus on understanding the characteristics, needs and psychology of diverse learners, interaction with learners and the attributes and qualities of a good facilitator of learning.
The Test items in Language I will focus on the proficiencies related to the medium of instruction. The Test items in language II will focus on the elements of language, communication and comprehension abilities.
The Test items in Mathematics and Science, and Social Studies/ Social
Science will focus on the concepts, problem solving abilities and pedagogical understanding of the subjects. The test items of Mathematics and Science will carry 30 marks each. The test items will be evenly distributed over different divisions of the syllabus of that subject as prescribed for classes VI - VIII by the NCERT/ CBSE
The Test items in Mathematics and Science, and Social Studies/ Social
Science will focus on the concepts, problem solving abilities and pedagogical understanding of the subjects. The test items of Mathematics and Science will carry 30 marks each. The test items will be evenly distributed over different divisions of the syllabus of that subject as prescribed for classes VI - VIII by the NCERT/ CBSE
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