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• Child Development and Pedagogy
• Language-I
• Language-II
• Mathematics
• Environmental Studies

• Child Development and Pedagogy
• Language-I
• Language-II
• Mathematics and Science or Social Studies/Social Science

• Child Development Concept
• Concept of Inclusive Education
• Learning & Pedagogy

• Language Comprehension
• Pedagogy of Language Development

• Language Comprehension
• Pedagogy of Language Development

• Geometry
• Shapes & Spatial Understanding
• Solids around Us
• Numbers
• Addition and Subtraction
• Multiplication
• Division
• Measurement
• Weight
• Time
• Volume
• Data Handling
• Patterns
• Money

• Family and Friends
• Relationships
• Work and Play
• Animals
• Plants
• Food
• Shelter
• Water
• Travel
• Things We Make and Do

• Concept of development & its relationship with learning
• Principles of the development of children
• Influence of Heredity & Environment
• Socialisation processes: Social world & children(Teacher, Parents, Peers)
• Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
• Concepts of child-centred and
• progressive education
• Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
• Multi-Dimensional Intelligence
• Language & Thought
• Social construct of gender, gender roles and gender discrimination in education.
• This includes understanding of what is different depending upon linguistic skill, caste, gender, community, religion and so forth.
• The distinction between assessment for and assessment of learning; School-Based Assessment, Continuous and Comprehensive
• Evaluation: perspectives and practices
• Question development relating to preparing learners for assessment, fostering learning and critical thinking in class and evaluating learner achievement.

b)Explain the concept of inclusive education and children with special needs – 5 questions.

• Learners from different backgrounds, including underprivileged learners.
• Some words for children with learning, difficulty, impairment, etc.
• Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners

c) Learning and Pedagogy (10 Questions)

• Children’s conception; reasons of failure in school.
• Learning, pedagogical basis; ways of children’s knowledge acquisition; socially oriented learning; contextual factors influencing learning.
• Children as “problem solvers” and “scientific investigators”.
• Alternative concepts of learning in children’s “errors” understood as key stages of the learning process.
• Cognition & Emotions
• Motivation and learning
• Factors contributing to learning-personal & environmental

• Comprehension of unread passages – two passages (one prosaic or dramatic, one poetic) with inference, grammar, and verbal abilities’ tasks (Prose passage may be literature, science, narrative, or discussion).

III. C) Pedagogy for Language Development 15 questions

• Learning and acquiring
• Language principles Teaching
• Speaking and listening modes, linguistic function and their exploiting by children.
• The role of grammar in acquiring language for spoken and written communication: viewpoint critical.
• Challenges of language teaching in a multicultural class; language problems, mistakes, and pathologies.
• Language Abilities
• Language comprehension and proficiency are assessed by the following activities: speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
• Materials for teaching and learning: A textbook, multimedia materials, and Multilingual Classroom Resource.
• Remedial Instruction

• Two unread written compositions (discourse, literature, narrative, or science) with comprehension, grammar, and vocabulary questions.

II. Language Development pedagogy (15 questions)

• Learning and acquiring
• Language principles Teaching
• Use of language as a tool within a listening and speaking role.
• The importance of grammar in language learning for oral message transmission and writing.
• Language problems, mistakes, and disorders: challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom
• Language Abilities
• Language comprehension and proficiency are assessed by the following activities: speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
• Materials for teaching and learning: A textbook, multimedia sources, and a multilingual classroom resource.
• Remedial Instruction

• Geometry
• Shapes & Spatial Understanding
• Solids around Us
• Numbers
• Addition and Subtraction
• Multiplication
• Division
• Measurement
• Weight
• Time
• Volume
• Data Handling
• Patterns
• Money

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, related aspects of learning and teaching
• Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching

• Family Member and Friends: Relationships, Work & 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 & Environmental Education
• Learning Principles
• Scope & relation to Science & Social Science
• Approaches of presenting concepts
• Activities
• Experimentation/Practical Work
• Discussion
• CCE
• Teaching material/Aids
• Problems

• Child Development (Elementary School Child)
• Learning And Pedagogy

• Language Comprehension
• Pedagogy of Language Development

• Language Comprehension
• Pedagogy of Language Development

• 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

• Concept of development and 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
• Understanding differences based on diversity of language skill, caste, gender, community, religion etc.
• Difference between Assessment for & 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.

b) Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs  (5 Questions)

• Learners from a broad range of backgrounds such as underprivileged and impoverished.
  “Imapirement‟ addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties etc.
  Catering for the talented, creative, specially abled learners

iii) Learning and Pedagogy (10 questions)

• Children’s thinking; why children fail in school.
  performance.
• Fundamental techniques of teaching and learning; child-learners’ strategies of learning; learning as social.
  activity; social context of learning.
• The child as a problem solver, a “scientific investigator”. Children’s “errors” as significant alternative conceptions of learning.
• steps in the learning process.
• Cognition & Emotions
• Motivation and learning
• Factors contributing to learning-personal & environmental

• Two passages, one prose or drama and one poem, and have questions on comprehension, inference, grammar, and verbal ability.

e) Developing a Language Pedagogy 15 questions

• Learning and acquiring
• Language principles Teaching
• Functions of listening and speaking; the function of language, and how children use it as a ‘tool’.
• An opinion about the importance of grammar in learning to speak and write.
• Language issues, mishaps, and teaching language in a multilingual classroom
• Language Skills
• Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
• They include textbooks, multimedia materials, and a multilingual resource.
• Remedial Teaching

• 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)

• Learning and acquisition
• Principles of language Teaching
• Hearing, talking and language: using language as a tool.
• Critical perspectives of grammar on language learning for expressing thoughts orally and writing; Language problems, errors, disorders, challenges of teaching a foreign language in a multilingual classroom
• Language Abilities
• Language comprehension and proficiency are assessed through the following activities: speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
• Some examples of teaching and learning materials include textbook, multimedia materials, and multilingual resource.
• classroom
• Remedial Teaching

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 (15 Questions)

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

Food

• Sources of food
• Components of food
• Cleaning food

Materials

• Materials of everyday life the World of Moving Living Things, People and Concepts and the Way Things Work
• Electric current and circuits
• Magnets Natural Phenomena 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/psycho-motor/affective

• Problems
• Remedial Teaching

Social Studies/Social Sciences 

Content

• 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

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

• Concept and scope of EVS
• Significance of EVS, integrated EVS
• Environmental Studies & Environmental Education
• Learning Principles
• Relation to Science, Scope and Social Science
• Approaches of presenting concepts
• Activities
• Experimentation/Practical Work
• Discussion
• CCE
• Teaching material/Aids
• Problems