STRUCTURE AND CONTENT OF SYLLABUS
Paper I (for classes 1 to V) Primary
Stage
I. Child Development and
Pedagogy 30 Questions
a) Child Development
(Primary 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.
b) 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
c) 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
a) 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)
b) 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
a) Comprehension 15
Questions
Two unseen prose passages
(discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with question on
comprehension, grammar and verbal
ability
b) 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
a) Content 15
Questions
• Geometry
• Shapes
& Spatial Understanding
• Solids
around Us
• Numbers
• Addition
and Subtraction
• Multiplication
• Division
• Measurement
• Weight
• Time
• Volume
• Data
Handling
• Patterns
• Money
b) 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
a) Content 15
Questions
i. Family
and Friends:
• Relationships
• Work
and Play
• Animals
• Plants
ii. Food
iii. Shelter
iv. Water
v. Travel
vi. Things
We Make and Do
b) 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
Paper II (for classes VI to VIII)
Elementary Stage
I. Child Development and
Pedagogy 30 Questions
a) 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.
b) 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
c) 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
a) 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)
b) Pedagogy of
Language Development
• Learning
and acquisition15 Questions
• 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
a) Comprehension 15
Questions
Two unseen prose passages
(discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with question on
comprehension, grammar and verbal ability
b) 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
(i) Mathematics 30
Questions
a) 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
b) 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
i) Science 30 Questions
a) 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
b) 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
a) 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
• b)
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
Note: For Detailed Syllabus Of Classes l-VIII, Please Refer To NCERT Syllabus And Textbooks
Primary Stage Syllabus PDF
Paper II (for classes VI to VIII)
Elementary Stage Syllabus PDF
(Paper I and Paper II)
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