CTET Notes
CTET
[Central Teacher Eligibility Test]
Exam Patttern -
CTET Paper First Subjects - (for classes 1 to V) Primary Stage
- CDP
- Hindi Pedagogy
- English Pedagogy
- Mathematics
- EVS
Total Question - 150 [ 30 From Each Topics]
Total Marks — 150
No Negative Marking
CTET Paper Second Subjects - (for classes VI to VIII) Elementary Stage
- CDP
- Hindi Pedagogy
- English Pedagogy
- SST ( Art Group) Or Math & Science (Science Group)
Total Question - 150
Total Marks — 150
No Negative Marking
STRUCTURE AND CONTENT OF SYLLABUS
(Paper I and Paper II)
Paper I (for classes 1 to V) Primary Stage
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 & 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-Base 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
- 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 baled 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 & Emotions
- Motivation and learning
- Factors contributing to learning-personal & 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 TeachingRole 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
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 & 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 & Environmental Education
- Learning Principles
- Scope & relation to Science & Social Science
- Approaches of presenting concepts
- Activities
- Experimentation/Practical Work
- Discussion
- CCE
- Teaching material/Aids
- Problems
Paper II (for classes VI to VIII) Elementary Stage`
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& 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-Base 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
- 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 baled 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 & Emotions
- Motivation and learning
- Factors contributing to learning-personal & 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 TeachingRole 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
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 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-Dand3-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 & 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
V. Social Studies/Social Sciences - 60 Questions
(a) Content - 40 Questions
- 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
- 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
(b) Pedagogical issues - 20 Questions
- 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
Note: For Detailed syllabus of classes l-VIII, please refer to NCERT syllabus and text books.
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