CTET Syllabus 2018

 

CTET Syllabus 2018:

CTET is all India level Entrance Examination conducted by CBSE. This test is conducted twice in a Year. Candidates are selected on the basis of written Test followed by Personal Interview. Here we will be providing you full information of the CTET Syllabus  Primary Stage (Class I-V) and Elementry Stage (Class VI-VIII).

CTET Syllabus 2018: Full Description

CTET Syllabus Primary Stage:

This paper is for candidates who intend to teach class I-V. The Detailed Syllabus of the primary stage is discussed below:

I. Child Development and Pedagogy (30 questions)

• Child Development (Primary School Child) (15 Questions)
  
  
  • Concept of development and its relationship with learning
  • Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
  • Principles of the development of children
  • Influence of Heredity & Environment
  • Language & Thought
  • Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)
  • Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender-bias, and educational practice
  • Piaget, Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives
  • Individual differences among learners, understanding differences based on diversity of language, caste, gender, community, religion etc.
  • Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
  • Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement.
  • The distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice

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• Concept of Inclusive education and understanding children with special needs (5 Questions)
  
  
  • Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners
  • Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
  • Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc.
• Learning and Pedagogy (10 Questions)
  
  • 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 learnng process.
  • Cognition & Emotions
  • Motivation and learning
  • Factors contributing to learning – personal & environmental

II. Language I (30 Questions)

• Language Comprehension (15 Questions)
  
  • Reading unseen passages – two passages one prose or drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative or discursive)

• 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
  • Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading and writing Teaching- learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resource of the classroom
  • Remedial Teaching
  II. Language – II (30 Questions)

• Comprehension (15 Questions)
  
  • Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with question on comprehension, grammar, and verbal ability
• 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

IV. Mathematics (30 Questions)

• Content (15 Questions)
  
  • Geometry
  • Shapes & Spatial Understanding
  • Solids around Us
  • Numbers
  • Addition and Subtraction
  • Multiplication
  • Division
  • Measurement
  • Weight
  • Time
  • Volume Data Handling
  • Patterns
  • Money
• Pedagogical issues (15 Questions)
  
  
  • Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking; understanding children’s thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies of making meaning and learning
  • Place of Mathematics in 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

V. Environmental Studies (30 Questions)

• Content (15 Questions)
  
  • Family and Friends:
    
    • Relationships
    • Work and Play
    • Animals
    • Plants
  • Food
  • Shelter
  • Water
  • Travel
  • Things We Make and Do
• Pedagogical Issues (15 Questions)
  
  
  • Concept and scope of EVS
  • Significance of EVS, integrated EVS
  • Environmental Studies & Environmental Education
  • Learning Principles
  • Scope & relation to Science & Social Science
  • Approaches of presenting concepts
  • Activities
  • Experimentation/Practical Work
  • Discussion
  • CCE
  • Teaching material/Aids
  • Problems

CTET Elementry Stage Syllabus:

This paper is for candidates who intend to teach class VI-VIII. The Detailed Syllabus of the Elementry stage is discussed below:

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I. Child Development and Pedagogy (30 Questions)

• Child Development (Elementary 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 etc.
  • Distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-Based
  • Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice
  • Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement

• 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.

• 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
  • Motivation and learning
  • Factors contributing to learning – personal & environmental

II. Language I (30 Questions)

• Language Comprehension (15 Questions)
  
  • Reading unseen passages – two passages one prose or drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar and verbal ability (Prose passage may be literary, scientific, narrative or discursive)

• 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

III. Language – II (30 Questions)

• Comprehension (15 Questions)
  
  • Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with the question on comprehension, grammar, and verbal ability.

• 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

IV. Mathematics and Science (60 Questions)

• Mathematics (30 Questions)
  
  • Content (20 Questions)
    
    • Number System
      
      • Knowing our Numbers
      • Playing with Numbers
      • Whole Numbers
      • Negative Numbers and Integers
      • Fractions
      • Algebra
    • Introduction to Algebra
    • Ratio and Proportion
    • Geometry
  • Basic geometrical ideas (2-D)
    
    • Understanding Elementary Shapes (2-D and 3-D)
    • Symmetry: (reflection)
    • Construction (using Straight edge Scale, protractor, compasses)
    • Mensuration
  
  
  • Data handling
    
    • Pedagogical issues (10 Questions)
      
      • Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking
      • Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
      • Language of Mathematics
      • Community Mathematics
      • Evaluation
      • Remedial Teaching
      • Problem of Teaching
• Science (30 Questions)
  
  • Content (20 Questions)
    
    • Food
    • Sources of food
    • Components of food
    • Cleaning food
    • Materials
    • Materials of daily use
    • The World of the Living
    • Moving Things People and Ideas
  
  
  • How things work
    
    • Electric current and circuits
    • Magnets
    • Natural Phenomena
  • Natural Resources

• Pedagogical issues (10 Questions)
  
  • Nature & Structure of Sciences
  • Natural Science/Aims & objectives
  • Understanding & Appreciating Science
  • Approaches/Integrated Approach
  • Observation/Experiment/Discovery (Method of Science)
  • Innovation
  • Text Material/Aids
  • Evaluation – cognitive/psychomotor/affective
  • Problems
  • Remedial Teaching

V. Social Studies/Social Sciences (60 Questions)

• Content (40 Questions)
  
  • History
    
    • When, Where and How
    • The Earliest Societies
    • The First Farmers and Herders
    • The First Cities
    • Early States
    • New Ideas
    • The First Empire
    • Contacts with Distant lands
    • Political Developments
    • Culture and Science
    • New Kings and Kingdoms
    • Sultans of Delhi
    • Architecture
    • Creation of an Empire
    • Social Change
    • Regional Cultures
    • The Establishment of Company Power
    • Rural Life and Society
    • Colonialism and Tribal Societies
    • The Revolt of 1857-58
    • Women and reform
    • Challenging the Caste System
    • The Nationalist Movement
    • India After Independence
  
  
  • Geography
    
    • Geography as a social study and as a science
    • Planet: Earth in the solar system
    • Globe
    • Environment in its totality: natural and human environment
    • Air
    • Water
    • Human Environment: settlement, transport and communication
    • Resources: Types-Natural and Human
    • Agriculture
    • Social and Political Life
    • Diversity
    • Government
    • Local Government
    • Making a Living
    • Democracy
    • State Government
    • Understanding Media
    • Unpacking Gender
    • The Constitution
    • Parliamentary Government
    • The Judiciary
    • Social Justice and the Marginalised

• 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

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