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

 Distinction between Assessment for Learning and Assessment of Learning: School-Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: Perspective and Practice

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 & Emotions

 Factors Contributing to Learning-Personal & Environmental

 Motivation and Learning

a) Language Comprehension: (15 questions)

Reading Unseen Passages – Two passages one prose or drama and one poem consisting of 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

 Remedial Teaching

 Evaluating Language Comprehension and Proficiency; Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing

 Teaching-Learning Materials: Textbook, Multi-Media Materials, Multilingual Resource of the Classroom

a) Comprehension: (15 questions)

Two Unseen Prose Passage (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

 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

a) Content: (20 questions)

 Number System

 1. Knowing our Numbers

 2. Playing with Numbers

 3. Whole Numbers

 4. Negative Numbers and Integers

 5. Fractions

 Algebra

 1. Introduction to Algebra

 2. Ratio and Proportion

 Geometry

 1. Basic Geometrical Idea (2-D)

 2. Understanding Elementary Shapes (2D and 3D)

 3. Symmetry (Reflection)

 4. Construction (Using Straight Edge Scale, Protractor, Compasses)

 5. Mensuration

 6. Data Handling

b) Pedagogical Issues: (10 questions)

Nature of Mathematics/Logical Thinking; Understanding Children’s Thinking and Reasoning Patterns and Strategies of Making Meaning and Learning

 Place of Mathematics in the 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

a) Content: (20 questions)

 Food

 1. Sources of Food

 2. Components of Food

 3. Cleaning Food

 Materials

 1. Materials of Daily Use

 The World of the Living

 Moving Things, People, and Ideas

 How Things Work

 1. Electric Current and Circuits

 2. 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/Experimental/Discovery (Method of Science)

 Innovation

 Text Material/Aids

 Evaluation – Cognitive/Psychomotor/Effective

 Problems

 Remedial Teaching

a) Content: (40 questions)

 History

 1. When, Where and How

 2. The Earliest Societies

 3. The First Farmers and Herders

 4. The First Cities

 6. New Ideas

 7. The First Empire

 8. Contacts with Distant Lands

 9. Political Developments

 10. Culture and Science

 11. New Kings and Kingdoms

 12. Sultans of Delhi

 13. Architecture

 14. Creation of an Empire

 15. Social Change

 16. Regional Cultures

 17. The Establishment of Company Power

 18. Rural Life and Society

 19. Colonialism and Tribal Societies

 20. The Revolt of 1857-58

 21. Women and Reform

 22. Challenging the Caste System

 23. The Nationalist Movement

 24. India after Independence

 Geography

 1. Geography as a Social Study and as a Science

 2. Plant: Earth in the Solar System

 3. Globe

 4. Environment in its Totality: Natural and Human Environment

 5. Air

 6. Water

 7. Human Environment: Settlement, Transport, and Communication

 8. Resources: Types – Natural and Human

 9. Agriculture

 Social and Political Life

 1. Diversity

 2. Government

 3. Local Government

 4. Making a Living

 5. Democracy

 6. State Government

 7. Understanding Media

 8. Unpacking Gender

 9. The Constitution

 10. Parliamentary Government

 11. The Judiciary

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