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TEACHER ELIGIBILITY TEST JULY 2011
PAPER II
SYLLABUS

I. CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PEDAGOGY (Marks: 30)
1. DEVELOPMENT OF CHILD :
- Development, Growth & Maturation – Concept & Nature
- Principles of development
- Factors influencing Development – Biological, Psychological, Sociological
- Dimensions of Development and their interrelationships – Physical & Motor, Cognitive,Emotional, Social, Moral, Language relating to Infancy, early Childhood, late Childhood, Adolescence.- Understanding Development – Piaget, Kohlberg, Chomsky, Carl Rogers- Individual differences – Intra & Inter Individual differences in the areas of Attitudes,Aptitude, Interest, Habits, Intelligence and their Assessment- Development of Personality – Concept, Factors effecting development of Personality- Adjustment, Behavioural problems, Mental Health- Methods and Approaches of Child Development – Observation, Interview, Case study,Experimental, Cross sectional and Longitudinal- Developmental tasks and Hazards

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2. UNDERSTANDING LEARNING :
- Concept, Nature of Learning – input – process – outcome
- Factors of Learning – Personal and Environmental
- Approaches to Learning and their applicability–Behaviourism (Skinner, Pavlov,Thorndike), Constructivism (Piaget, Vygotsky), Gestalt(Kohler, Koffka) andObservational (Bandura)
- Dimensions of Learning – Cognitive, Affective and Performance
- Motivation and Sustenance –its role in learning.- Memory & Forgetting
- Transfer of Learning

3. PEDAGOGICAL CONCERNS :
- Teaching and its relationship with learning and learner
- Learners in Contexts: Situating learner in the socio-political and cultural context- Children from diverse contexts–Children With Special Needs(CWSN), InclusiveEducation
- Understanding of pedagogic methods – Enquiry based learning, Project based learning,Survey, Observation and Activity based learning
- Individual and Group learning: Issues and concerns with respect to organizing learning in class room lke Study habits, Self learning and Learning to learn skills - Organizing learning in heterogeneous class room groups – Socio-economic background,
Abilities and Interest - Paradigms of organizing Learning-Teacher centric, Subject centric and Learner centric - Teaching as Planned activity – Elements of Planning - Phases of Teaching – Pre active, Interactive and Post active - General and Subject related skills, competencies required in teaching and attributes of good facilitator - Learning resources – Self, Home, School, Community, Technology - Class room Management: Role of student, teacher, Leadership style of teacher, Creation of non-threatening learning environment, Managing behaviour problems, Guidance &
Counselling, Punishment and its legal implications, Rights of a child, Time Management. - Distinction between Assessment for Learning & Assessment of Learning, School based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation : Perspective & Practice - Understanding teaching & learning in the context of NCF, 2005 & Right To Education
Act, 2009.