STRUCTURE AND
CONTENT OF SYLLABUS
Paper I (for classes 1 to V)
Primary Stage Syllabus PDF
Paper II (for classes VI to VIII)
Elementary Stage Syllabus PDF
(Paper I and Paper II)
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
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