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CTET Paper 1 Syllabus – For Classes 1 to 5

CTET Paper 1 Syllabus for Child Development and Pedagogy

Child Development (Primary School Child)

  • Concept of development and its relationship with learning
  • Principles of the development of children
  • 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.
  • 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
  • The distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-Based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice
  • Formulating appropriate questions for assessing the 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:

  • 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:

  • 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
  • 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; learning as a social activity; social context of learning.
  • Factors contributing to learning– personal & environmental

CTET Paper 1 Language 1 Syllabus

Language Comprehension:

Reading unseen passages – two passages one prose or drama and one poem with questions on comprehension, inference, grammar, and verbal ability

Pedagogy of Language Development:

  • 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
  • Learning and acquisition
  • Principles of Language Teaching
  • Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
  • A critical perspective on the role of grammar in learning a language for communicating ideas verbally and in written form
  • Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resources of the classroom
  • Remedial Teaching

CTET Paper 1 Language 2 Syllabus

Comprehension:

Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary or narrative or scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar, and verbal ability

Pedagogy of Language Development:

  • Language Skills
  • Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading, and writing
  • Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resources of the classroom
  • Learning and acquisition
  • Principles of Language Teaching
  • Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
  • A 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
  • Remedial Teaching

CTET 2024 Mathematics Syllabus

Content

  • Geometry
  • Shapes & Spatial Understanding
  • Solids around Us
  • Numbers
  • Addition and Subtraction
  • Multiplication
  • Division
  • Measurement
  • Weight
  • Time
  • Volume
  • Data Handling
  • Patterns
  • Money

Pedagogical Issues

  • Language of Mathematics
  • Community Mathematics
  • Evaluation through formal and informal methods
  • Problems of Teaching
  • Nature of Mathematics/Logical thinking; understanding children’s thinking and reasoning patterns and strategies for making meaning and learning
  • Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
  • Error analysis and related aspects of learning and teaching
  • Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching

CTET Environmental Studies Syllabus

Content Questions

  • Family and Friends
  1. Relationships
  2. Work and Play
  3. Animals
  4. Plants
  • Shelter
  • Water
  • Travel
  • Food
  • Things We Make and Do

Pedagogical Issues

  • Concept and scope of EVS
  • Significance of EVS integrated EVS
  • Activities
  • Experimentation/Practical Work
  • Discussion
  • CCE
  • Environmental Studies & Environmental Education
  • Learning Principles
  • Scope & relation to Science & Social Science
  • Approaches of presenting concepts
  • Teaching material/Aids
  • Problems

CTET Paper 2 Syllabus – For Classes 6 to 8

CTET Paper 2 Child Development and Pedagogy Syllabus

Child Development (Elementary School Child)

  • Concept of development and its relationship with learning
  • Principles of the development of children
  • 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. The distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-Based Assessment
  • 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
  • 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:

  • 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

CTET Syllabus of Learning and Pedagogy:

  • How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school performance
  • Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant steps in the learning process.
  • Cognition & Emotions
  • Motivation and learning
  • 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’
  • Factors contributing to learning – personal & environmental

CTET Paper 2 Language 1 Syllabus

CTET Syllabus of Language Comprehension:

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:

  • Learning and acquisition
  • Language Skills
  • Evaluating language comprehension and proficiency: speaking, listening, reading, and writing
  • Teaching-learning materials: Textbook, multi-media materials, multilingual resources of the classroom
  • 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
  • Remedial Teaching

CTET Paper 2 Language 2 Syllabus

CTET Syllabus of Comprehension:

Two unseen prose passages (discursive or literary narrative or scientific) with questions on comprehension, grammar, and verbal ability

Pedagogy of Language Development:

  • Learning and acquisition
  • Principles of Language Teaching
  • Role of listening and speaking; function of language and how children use it as a tool
  • A 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 resources of the classroom
  • Remedial Teaching

CTET Syllabus for Mathematics

  • 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

  • Nature of Mathematics/Logical Thinking Place of Mathematics in Curriculum
  • Language of Mathematics
  • Community Mathematics
  • Evaluation
  • Remedial Teaching
  • Problem of Teaching

CTET Syllabus for Science

  • Food: Sources of food, Components of food, Cleaning food
  • The World of the Living
  • Moving Things People and Ideas
  • How things work: Electric current and circuits, Magnets
  • Materials: Materials of daily use
  • Natural Phenomena
  • Natural Resources

Pedagogical issues:

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

CTET Syllabus for Social Studies/ Social Sciences

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
  • 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
  • Political Developments
  • Culture and Science
  • New Kings and Kingdoms
  • Sultans of Delhi
  • Architecture
  • 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
  • Democracy
  • State Government
  • Understanding Media
  • Unpacking Gender
  • The Constitution
  • Local Government
  • Making a Living
  • Parliamentary Government
  • The Judiciary
  • Social Justice and the Marginalised

Pedagogical issues:

  • 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

CTET Paper 1 Exam Pattern – For Classes 1 to 5

Name of the SubjectNumber of QuestionsTotal MarksDuration
Child Development and Pedagogy3030150 minutes (Two-and-a-half hours)
Language I (Compulsory)3030
Language II (Compulsory)3030
Mathematics3030
Environmental Studies3030
Total150150

CTET Paper 2 Exam Pattern – For Classes 6 to 8

Name of the SubjectNumber of QuestionsTotal MarksDuration
Child Development and Pedagogy3030150 minutes (Two-and-a-half hours)
Language I (Compulsory)3030
Language II (Compulsory)3030
Mathematics and Science (For Maths and Science teachers) (or)6060
Social Studies and Social Sciences (For Social Studies and Social Sciences teacher)6060
Total150150

CTET Syllabus, Exam Pattern Overview

Conducting BodyCentral Board of Secondary Education
Name of the ExamCentral Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET)
CategorySyllabus
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