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Designation : OTET 2017 Odisha Teacher Eligibility Test
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DETAILED SYLLABUS FOR OTET :
PAPER - I
SECTION – A : CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PEDAGOGY
Unit – 1 :- Understanding Child Development during Childhood (focus on children at primary level)
** Concept, principles and stages of child development
** Characteristics of physical, cognitive, social, emotional and moral development in childhood
** Influence of heredity and environment in understanding the child
Unit – 2 :- Understanding Learning Process and Learners
** Learning – concept, nature and individual differences in learning
** Understanding how child learns – learning through observation, limitation
** Understanding low child learns – various methods of learning
** Basic conditions of learning and promotion of learning through motivation,
classroom learning environment and teacher behaviour
** Development of creative thinking
Unit – 3 :- Concept of Inclusive Education and Understanding Children with special needs
** Concept of inclusive education
** Addressing the needs of diverse group of learning in inclusive classroom (CWSN, girls, SC / ST)
** Addressing the talented, creative learning
Unit – 4 :- Approaches to teaching and learning
** Teacher-centred, learner-centred and learning-centred approach
** Competency-based and activity-based approach
** TLM – its importance, use and preparation for classroom transaction
** Teaching competency to handle mono-grade and multi-grade situation
Unit – 5 :- Assessment
** Continuous and comprehensive assessment
** Purpose of assessment
** Assessing scholastic and other scholastic areas
** Sharing of assessment outcomes and follow up

SECTION B : LANGUAGE (ODIA/URDU/HINDI/TELUGU/BENGALI)
GROUP – A : (PEDAGOGY)
Unit – 1 :- Learning Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali at elementary level
** Aims and objectives of teaching Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali as mother tongue
** Principles of language teaching
** Acquisition of four-fold language skills in Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali viz., listening, speaking, reading and writing
** Interdependence of four language skills
** Objectives and strategies of transacting integrated text for the beginners
Unit – 2 :- Teaching, Reading and Writing Skills
** Technique of developing intensive and extensive reading skills
** Teaching-learning composition and creative writing
** Critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning language for communicating ideas in written form
** Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom, language difficulties and errors

GROUP – B : (CONTENT)
Unit – 3 :- Assessment of learning Odia / Urdu / Hindi / Telugu / Bengali
** Assessment language comprehensive and proficiency : speaking, listening, reading, writing – construction of different types of test items
** Remedial teaching
Unit – 4 :- Language items
** Part of speech – Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Adjectives, Conjunction
** Formation of words – using prefix and suffix
** Synonyms and antonyms
** Phrases and idioms
Unit – 5 :- Language Comprehension
** Reading two unseen passages – one passage from prose and one poem with questions on comprehension, drama, inference, grammar and verbal ability (prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative or discursive)

SECTION C : LANGUAGE (ENGLISH)
GROUP – A : (PEDAGOGY)
Unit – 1 :- Learning English at the Elementary Level
** Importance of learning English
** Objectives of learning English (in terms of content and competence specifications)
Unit – 2 :- Language Learning
** Principles of language teaching
** Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom
Unit – 3 :- Skills in learning English
** Four-fold basic skills of learning viz., listening, speaking, reading and writing : interdependence of skills
** Techniques and activities for developing listening and speaking skills (recitation, story telling, dialogue)
** Development of reading skills : reading for comprehension, techniques and strategies for teaching, reading (phonic, alphabet, word, sentence and story)
** Development of writing skill – teaching composition
Unit – 4 :- Assessment of English
** Assessing language comprehension and proficiency : listening, speaking, reading, writing

GROUP – B : (CONTENT)
Unit – 5 :- Comprehension
** Two unseen prose passage (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar and verbal ability
Unit – 6 :- Language items
** Nouns, Adverbs, Verbs, Tense and Time, Preposition, Articles, Adjectives, Prepositions, Punctuation

Section D : Mathematics
GROUP – A : (PEDAGOGY)
Unit – 1 :- Mathematics Education in Schools
** Nature of Mathematics (exactness, systematic, patterns, preciseness)
** Aims and objectives of teaching Mathematics
** Specific objectives of teaching Mathematics
Unit – 2 :- Methods and Approaches to Teaching-Learning Mathematics
** Methods : Inductive, deductive, analysis, synthesis, play-way
** Approaches : Constructivist and Activity-based
Unit – 3 :- Assessment in Mathematics
** Assessment in Mathematics
** Formal and informal assessment
** Different types of test items
** Planning for remedial and enrichment programme in Mathematics

GROUP – B : (CONTENT)
Unit – 4 :- Number System and Operation in Numbers
** Number system (natural, whole, rational, real)
** Fundamental operation on numbers
** Fractional numbers and decimals – operations in fractional numbers and decimals
** Factors and multiples – NCF and LCM
** Percentage and its application
Unit – 5 :- Measurement
** Measurement of length, weight, capacity
** Measurement of area and perimeter of rectangle and square
** Measurement of time (concept of am, pm and time interval)
Unit – 6 :- Shapes and spatial Relationship
** Basic geometrical concepts (point, line segment, ray, straight line, angles)
** Geometry of triangles, quadrilaterals and circles
** Symmetry
** Geometrical slides (cube, cuboid, sphere, cylinger cone)
Unit – 7 :- Data Handling and Patterns
** Pictography, bar graph, histogram, pie chart
** Interpretation of these graphs
** Patterns in numbers and figures