CTET EXAM SYLLABUS
CBSE conduct All India level Entrance Examination CTET twice in a Year. Aspiring candidates have to qualify the exam with (>=60%) to be a CTET Certified candidate. This certificate is must for a person who is having a great desire to serve in central schools. We are providing full information of the CTET Exam Syllabus 20 for both papers, Paper 1 (Class I-V) and Paper 2 (Class VI-VIII). CTET Test Syllabus for Child development & Pedagogy, Language 1 & Language 2 topics will be same for both the papers (Paper 1 & Paper 2)
CTET Syllabus: Complete Guidance
Child Development and Pedagogy (Paper 1 & 2) (30 Questions)
Child Development & Pedagogy (15 marks)
- Development of child at primary and elementary level & how development is related with learning.
- Factors to affect the development (Heredity and Environment)
- Child development principles
- Child development theories
- Kohlberg, Piaget and Vygotsky (contracts and critical perspectives)
- Child's socialization process. (With teachers, parents and peers)
- Child's developmental phases
- Child centered and Progressive education
- Child's developmental stages
Concept of inclusive education & physically challenged children (5 marks)
- Progressive and child centered education
- Difference between assessment for learning and assessment of learning. School based assessment and CCE (Continuous and comprehensive evaluation).
- Question formulation to assess readiness, learning and critical thinking of learner in classroom.
- Discrimination among learners based on caste, creed, gender, religion, colour etc.
- Address the children with special needs, creative, with learning difficulties, physically challenged etc.
Learning Pedagogy (10marks)
- Addressing children's cognitive stage to learn. Learning as a social activity in social context.
- Access children's potential to learn & make them free to learn so that they got succeeded.
- Access the children's learning pattern and take desired step to overcome the difficulties in learning.
- Every child has some innate power as: a problem solver or scientific investigator
- Motivational, personal & environmental factors in learning.
Topics for language 1 & 2 for both papers (60 marks)
Language comprehension (15 X 2 = 30 marks)
Comprehension on two unseen passages and one poem. Passage may be narrative, literary, scientific or discursive & multiple choice questions based upon these passages.
- Evaluation of four skills of language: reading, writing, listening, speaking
- How the children do excel in these four skills.
- Pronunciation is the main point of consideration in verbal communication.
- Three principal views of language: structural, functional & interactive.
- Remedial teaching
CTET EVS SYLLABUS - Paper 1(30 marks)
TOPICS (15 marks)
- Environment
- Natural resources
- Food
- Water
- Energy
- Family
- Friends
EVS pedagogical issues (15 marks)
- Excursions
- Diagrams
- Charts
- Remedial teaching
CTET Science Syllabus - Paper 2 (30 marks)
Topics - 20 marks
- 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
Science pedagogical issues (10 marks)
- Visits
- Excursions
- Diagrams
- Charts
- Models
- Small projects
- Working objects & remedial teaching etc.