K-TET 2012 Syllabus www.keralapareekshabhavan.in Kerala Teacher Eligibility Test : Kerala Pareeksha Bhavan

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Name of the Organisation : Kerala Pareeksha Bhavan Government of Kerala (keralapareekshabhavan.in)
Type of Announcement : Syllabus
Designation : Kerala Teacher Eligibility Test (K-TET) 2012

Syllabus : http://210.212.239.92:8081/tet/report/syllabus.pdf
Home Page : http://www.keralapareekshabhavan.in/

KERALA TEACHER ELIGIBILITY TEST (K-TET) 2012
Category I - Paper I (For Classes I to V)
SYLLABUS

I. CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PEDAGOGY 30 Questions
Child Development and Learning (15 Questions)
-- Methods of studying child behaviour - observation, case study, Interview, Psychological tests etc.
-- Concept of development
-- Principles of growth and development
-- Influence of heredity and environment on human development
-- Concept of learning
-- Basic theories of learning : Conditioning (Pavlov, Skinner); Insight learning (Gestalt); cognitive learning (Piaget, Bruner and Vygotsky)
-- Relation between development and learning : learner readiness of maturation
-- Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky : Constructs and critical perspectives.
-- Concept of child - centered and progressive education - Activity based method of Teaching and Learning, Problem Based Learning
-- Critical perspectives of construct of intelligence (Theories of Spearman, Guilford, Thurstone and Gardner).
-- Language and Thought (Basic perspectives of Piaget, Chomsky and Vygotsky).
-- 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 based Assessment (Internal assessment)
-- Continuous and comprehensive evaluation: Perspectives and practice
-- Assessing learner achievement - grading
-- Personality development - concept of personality and basic approaches to personality (Psychoanalytic and Trait) - Adjustment mechanisms Concepts of inclusive education and understanding children with special needs (5 Questions)
-- Concept of exceptional children
-- Concept of children with special needs (CWSN)
-- Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
-- Concept of learning disability (LD) - Addressing the needs of children with learning disabilities
-- Addressing the Talented, creative, specially abled children

Learning and pedagogy (10 Questions)
-- How children think and learn: how and why children fail to achieve success in school performance
-- Different factors influencing learning and achievement
-- Basic process of teaching and learning: Children’s strategies of learning - Learning as a social activity - social context of learning
-- Child as a problem solver and ‘scientific investigator’ (concept of the nature of child by Piaget, Bruner and Vygotsky)
-- Alternative concepts of Learning in children: Understanding children’s’ ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning process (Self - corrective nature of the child)
-- Cognition and Emotions - Emotion - Basic Emotions - characteristics of childhood emotionality. Emotional Development (Bridge’s)- cognition (Thinking, Reasoning, Problems solving and Investigation)
-- Motivation and learning - How does motivation influence learning - Maslow’s theory of motivation
-- Factors contributing to learning - Personal and environmental
Note:
(i) Emphasis should be given to questions related to classroom contexts,
(ii) Classroom context should be primary level.

B. TAMIL 30 Questions
1. Reading Comprehension - Prose (5 Questions)
A. Comprehension of theme
B. Interpretation
C. Inference
2. Reading Comprehension - Poem. (5 Questions)
A. Comprehension of themes
B. Poetic images
C. Interpretation
3. Pedagogical aspects of Mothertongue Education - Class - I - V (10 Questions)
A. Principles of Language Learning
B. Classroom practices
C. Inclusion of differently abled children
D. Methodology of curriculum Transaction
4. Language, Literature and culture. (10 Questions)
A. Books and Authors
B. Functional Grammar
C. Proverbs
D. Forms of Literature
E. Tamil Festivals

C. KANNADA 30 Questions
1. Reading comprehension - Prose (5 Questions)
A. Comprehension of Theme
B. Interpretation
C. Inference
2. Reading comprehension –Poem (5 Questions)
A. Comprehension of Theme
B. Poetic images
3. Pedagogical aspects of Kannada Language – Class 1 to 5 (10 Questions)
A. Principles of Language learning
B. Classroom Practices
C. Inclusion of differently abled children
D. Methodology of curriculum transaction
4. History of Language, Literature and Culture (10 Questions)
A. Idioms, Phrases and usages
B. Functional grammar
C. Proverbs
D. Rhythms

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