CTET

CTET 2020 Syllabus

Central Teacher Eligibility Test

Examination Start Date
28th Dec 2022

exam date
Archana Archana

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Table of Content

CTET Paper 1-

1) Child Development and Pedagogy

(a) Child Development (Primary School Child)

  • Concept of development and its relationship with learning
  • Principles of child development
  • Influence of heredity and environment
  • Socialization processes
  • Child-centered and progressive education
  • Multi-Dimensional Intelligence
  • Language and thought
  • Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels

(b) Concept of inclusive education and understanding children with special needs

  • Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds
  • Addressing needs of children with learning difficulties
  • Addressing talented, creative and specially-abled learners

(c) Learning and Pedagogy

  • How and why children think and learn
  • Basic processes of teaching and learning
  • Child as a problem solver and scientific investigator
  • Factors contributing to learning
  • Cognition and emotions
  • Motivation and learning
  • Alternative conceptions of learning

2) Language 1

(a) Language Comprehension

In this section, there is Reading unseen passages, consisting of two passages, one poem and one prose or drama with questions on grammar, comprehension, verbal ability, and inference (Prose passage may be literary, discursive, narrative or scientific) 
 

(b) Pedagogy of Language Development

  • Remedial Teaching 
  • Principles of Language Teaching 
  • Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders 
  • Language Skills 
  • A critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language in verbally and in written form for communicating ideas
  • Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom 
  • Learning and acquisition
  • Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
  • Role of speaking and listening; the function of children using language as a tool 

3)  Language 2

(a) Comprehension

There are 2 unseen prose passages (literary or discursive or scientific or narrative) with questions on, grammar, verbal ability, and comprehension.

(b) Pedagogy of Language Development

  • Remedial Teaching 
  • Principles of Language Teaching 
  • Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders 
  • Language Skills 
  • Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language in verbally and in written form for communicating ideas
  • Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom 
  • Learning and acquisition
  • Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing
  • Role of speaking and listening; function of children using language as a tool 

4) Mathematics

(a) Content

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

(b) Pedagogical issues

  • Nature of Logical thinking/Mathematics; understanding reasoning patterns and children's thinking and strategies of making learning and meaning
  • Community Mathematics 
  • Place of Mathematics in Curriculum 
  • Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching 
  • Problems of Teaching 
  • Language of Mathematics 
  • Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching 
  • Evaluation through formal and informal methods 

5) Environmental Science

(a) Content

i. Family and Friends-
  • Relationships
  • Work and Play
  • Animals
  • Plants
ii. Shelter
iii. Food
iv. Things We Make and Do
v. Travel
vi. Water

(b) Pedagogical Issues

  • Environmental Studies & Environmental Education 
  • Concept and scope of EVS
  • Learning Principles 
  • CCE 
  • Scope & relation to Science & Social Science 
  • The significance of EVS, integrated EVS 
  • Teaching material/AidsProblems 
  • Experimentation/Practical Work 
  • Approaches to presenting concepts 
  • Discussion 
  • Activities 

CTET Paper 2-

1) Child Development and Pedagogy

  • Child Development (Elementary School Child) 
  • The concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs 
  • Learning and Pedagogy

2) Language I

  • Language Comprehension 
  • Pedagogy of Language Development 

3) Language – II

  • Comprehension 
  • Pedagogy of Language Development 

4) Mathematics and Science

(i) Mathematics

(a) Content 
  • Number System 
  • Algebra 
  • Geometry 
  • Mensuration 
  • Data handling 
 
(b) Pedagogical issues 

(ii) Science 

(a) Content
  • Food 
  • Materials 
  • The World of the Living 
  • Moving Things People and Ideas 
  • How things work 
  • Natural Phenomena 
  • Natural Resources 
(b) Pedagogical issues 

5) Social Studies/Social Sciences

(a) Content 

  • History 
  • Geography 
  • Social and Political Life 

(b) Pedagogical issues

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